Pelican in Cairns

From a croc to a shark...

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April 29th 2006
The bus to Cairns was an exhausting one, I pretty much slept all the way. I was still knackered by the time we got there, and when we got to our hostel, Serpent, I went straight to bed. Unfortunately the impossibly loud girls in the dorm decided against me getting a good nights sleep, and one of them embarrassingly brought back Rupert from Pride of Airlie...had to lie and listen to them, praying ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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