Heron Island

Let´s go to Heron Island! :)

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November 17th 2013
To get to Heron Island we firstly had to take the plane back to Bundaberg, where our car was waiting for us. Then we drove up to Gladstone to change our way of transportation once again. Heron Island does not have an airstrip where you can land a plane, like Lady Elliot, but there is still several ways you can get out to the island. Booking our room we got the boat ride back from the island for fr ... 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