Home

Cairns

---

December 28th 2011
In the 6th grade, I didn’t know what a bucket list was, but already it had begun.<span><span><span><span><span> Mostly, the mystic of the Great Barrier Reef made the idea so attractive.<span> I hadn’t the slightest clue of the vastness, the danger and the satisfaction of adventure, but my love of animals and nature including turtles, fish, manatees, d ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

---

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