Sugar Cane Trains

We made it to Cairns!!!

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October 17th 2007
... and carried on truckin' Since our last blog entry we have seen and done some amazing things. I suppose the best place to start would be the last place we ended... so where were we? Oh yes, how could we forget... Rockhampton... the Beef Capital of Austrailia. There we crossed from the temperate zone to the tropic zone of the Capricorn. We spent one night in Rockhampton and in ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Port Douglas

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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