Breakfast with the birds

Breakfast with the Birds

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November 23rd 2006
We leave early for the RainForest Habitat Center in Port Douglas to have "breakfast with the birds". It is a large aviary with a buffet breakfast and birds flying all around us, landing on table and on the people. Very much fun. Then after the meal is finished we are taken on a guided walk through the Rainforest and Wetlands Aviaries; dry land animals such as the koala, kangaroo, casowary. We got ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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