Chilling at the Bottom of the GBR

Last Day on the Nimrod

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July 9th 2006
Last day aboard the ship, better make it a good one, right? I planned to dive all that I could, hopefully with a chance to see any last things I hadn’t yet seen. In all, I feel like I did see what I came here for. And by the end of today, there wasn’t really anything within reason that I had a yearn to see. The last dive of the day was the best one, and I knew that I’d rather end on this goo ... 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