Down the East Coast, Down Under... Cairns to Sydney, 3,500km and 16 days
December 29th 2008 These are just some of the ooodles of pictures I've taken whilst travelling down the east coast of Australia. Starting off on December 11th, I joined a Contiki tour down the east coast which took me to Cairns, up to Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas, back to Cairns then onto Airlie Beach, Whitsundays for 2 days of sailing, Rockhampton (on the Tropic Of Capricorn so this is where we finally left t
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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 
