Sunshine With her Apple

Cape Tribulation-BatHouse

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January 6th 2008
Cape Tribulation was a dream come true. I worked at the Australian Tropical Research Station running the bathouse which was also an environmental education Centre, caring for the bats, assisting in research and doing general maintenance i.e. building electric fences, weed control and maintaining solar power etc to earn my keep. I lived in a little cabin in the middle of the rainforest with all t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef

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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