Cape Tribulation

Cape Tribulation to Townsville

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December 5th 2007
We left the desert behind and flew from Alice to Cairns in the north of Queensland. After a sleepless night in a hostel being subjected to 'pounding pounding techno music' (yep we're getting old) we went to pick up our state of the art 'wicked' camper van that would be home for our journey down the east coast to Melbourne. The van's are all decorated by the owners' wife, a dab hand at graffiti. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation

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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