Cathedral Fig Tree

Waterfalls and many, many potatoes

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September 16th 2008
From Cairns, I went inland to the Atherton Tablelands, highlands on the Great Dividing Range. It's a good place to get farm work and there's lots of other stuff I wanted to see here. On my first night, I stayed in a little town called Yungaburra, and the next morning I phoned some farmers, hoping to get a job in the next couple of weeks. Long story short, I ended up being picked up an hour later b ... read more

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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