Port Douglas

Cairns to Cape Trib - The end of our Aussie Adventure!

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May 4th 2011
After basically spending the past 6 weeks on the beach we decided it was time for a change of scene and made a beeline for Cape Tribulation, the rain forest of Northern Queensland. Where World Heritage meets World Heritage in the form of the Great Barrier Reef and Rain forest (a wee Jamesy fact there!). It was indeed stunning but after camping by the sea for the night we left Cape Trib as there is ... 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