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Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands

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June 12th 2010
After some delicate manoeuvring we manage to extract ourselves from Paranormal Park and make another short journey to Lake Placid (name rings a bell) 12km north of Cairns. The easiest parking yet, we drove to the site, unhitched on the road and a very nice man on a little tractor backed it into place in 2 minutes flat (Deb very grateful as the food poisoning from the previous night’s prawns was ... 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