Matt by the marina

Australia

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November 24th 2008
We started our day with a quick trip to the dive shop to buy some new snorkels. Ours had been slowly giving up the more we used them and even full of tie wraps they’d started to leak again so we’d felt it was time to invest in some new ones. It was quite a novelty to have proper snorkels with the drains to stop you swallowing water and we were excited to try them out. We’d had to check out ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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