Spooky Bats

Cairns, Mission Beach and Magnetic Island

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November 30th 2008
I arrived in Cairns on Thursday morning. To give you an idea of the weather please imagine being in a really hot and humid green house, I didn't realise how tropical it would be! At first I spent some time hopping from air conditioned place to air conditioned place! The thing I found most exciting about Cairns were the bats, although perhaps not everyone's favourite. I was walking into the main ... 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