DeirdreCiaranWhitehavenBeach

Queensland

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September 3rd 2014
And so to Queensland, the last stop on our Australian tour. We flew into Cairns and then up to Port Douglas. It is a little town up in the North of Queensland, pretty close to the Great Barrier Reef. Ciaran got a wee scuba dive in and got out on the reef which was amazing. Pretty much every fish out of "Finding Nemo" was swimming about and there was a good auld shark having a sleep on the sea bed. ... 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