Me at the Northern Tip of Australia

Punsand Bay and the "Tip"

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July 22nd 2009
We continued North to the Tip. We stayed 14km from the Tip at Punsand Bay. We have a campsite right on the beachfront. We had a swim, obviously not in the sea because the water is full of salt water crocodiles. I didn’t want to get gobbled up. We went in the small swimming pool instead. For tea, I invented a triple decker hamburger and called it the Big Al. It had bread, cheese, meat, oni ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape York

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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