Cairns

Week 17 & 18

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September 14th 2010
We were quite settled by Bramston Beach and it felt like such an effort to move on. After driving along past Bartle Frere ( the highest Mt in QLD) we took possibly the worst road of our trip so far. In order to get up to Lake Tinaroo we had to take an extremely steep, narrow and windy road. The continual hairpin turns for over 20km left us all feeling car sick with both the boys crying. We (fin ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Daintree

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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