Breakfast by the big mango

East Coast - From Benalla to Cairns

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September 20th 2009
Sunday 20.09.09 We left Benalla with a plan to drive a couple of hundred kilometers, before pitching the tent (sorry everything will be in kms, the car only counts in kms). We’ve got an ace book which lists free and cheap places to camp so we chose one just off the route and found it without too much trouble. It was just a recreation field in a town called Yarong and the sign at the gate said ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

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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