Erm....fish

Oz : part 1

---

November 11th 2005
Hello again all, I made it to Australia after nearly 33 years in this life. Some might say it's been a long time coming (me anyway). So I flew into Brisbane on Sunday morning, early, and caught a connecting inernal flight to Cairns, arriving early afternoon. You could feel the heat of Cairns immediately, it's consistently around 28-32c here during the day, and probably only drops to 20/22 in th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » open water

---

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more