Plane

Fly over the Great Barrier Reef!

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January 21st 2006
Took a scenic flight over the reef and rainforest off the coast of Cairns, which was just amazing. The plane only took 5 people in total. As we flew over a really populated reef, Tongue Reef, the pilot lowered the plane down to the water for us to see the turtles, manta rays, dugongs and sharks. There seemed to be hundreds of turtles. The waves are so big where the inner and outer reefs meet, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » open water

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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