Fish

Loving Cairns

---

January 26th 2007
We headed up to Cairns to start the East Coast part of our trip back down to Sydney on the 23rd and walking out of the airport we were hit by glorious humid heat. 'Great, this is what i have been waiting for' i say to Gaz as we wait for our free airport transfer to our hostel in Cairns. It had been pretty poor weather down south and even though it is the rainy season at the mo and i have been sw ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Mission Beach

---

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