Our campspot in Bundaberg

Tropical North Queensland

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July 2nd 2006
So last time I left we were leaving Hervey Bay. We stopped in the town of Bundaberg which is where the main rum distillery in Australia is located. We took a tour of the distillery and now I can tell you anything you want to know about how rum is made. The vats in which the rum is held before it is distributed into bottles is made of wood from the trees of the North Carolina Appalachian mountai ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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