On Our way to the Outer Great Barrier Reefs

Cockroach Hotel, Great Barrier Reef

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October 24th 2007
We arrived in Cairns 2 days ago and booked into our Hotel The Cairns Queenlander. When we went to our combined room / appartment, of course we checked it out. Well we opened the kitchen drawer and we saw a cockroach. We loked everywhere else in the place and didn't see anymore so we were not to concerned at that point. We went out for supper and came back and agin turned on the lights. Well re ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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