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The Cairns jungle adventure

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December 1st 2009
Sorry about yesterdays mardy post about Cairns- I'd just gotten horribly scummy simply walking to the nearest shop to get a bite to eat and the experience put me in a pretty bad frame of mind. Today I decided to use the hostels relative isolation to my advantage and popped over to the Flecker Botanical Gardens. These are quite a long way from most of Cairns... and quite close to where I'm stayi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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