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Green Sea Turtle

Laying some eggs
Turtles are slow

January 12th 2009
It was unavoidable. A necessary stop on the path of the journey. The Great Barrier Reef, hard to avoid at over 2300km long. Karen, Matt and I decided to stay relatively close to Brisbane and head for Lady Elliot Island (LEI). LEI is the southernmost island on the reef and is only a short 30 minute hopper flight from Hervey Bay. Long flights looming in the future lead me to opt for the closer of th ... read more
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Australian Flag 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
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