Gilligans 2

East coast begins!

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July 28th 2009
We are now on the East Coast and we are loving it! Cairns is an awesome city and totally geared up for backpackers, because of that reason I could never live here but for us on our travels it is wicked! Our flight was delayed by 2 hours so we didn’t actually get into Cairns until about 10am and unfortunately we were not allowed to check into our Hostel until 2pm so we just grabbed some breakfast ... read more

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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