Great Barrier Reef

Cairns - how hot???

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February 13th 2007
We got the 'red eye' (and no lads, I didn't get a discount!) flight from Perth to Brisbane and then on to Cairns. Look at the view from the plane on the way in - amazing! We'd booked a room at Gilligans but we arrived at 9:00 and couldn't check in until 14:00 so we spent the next few hours sorting out the dive gear, looking around Cairns and then trying to find refuge from the heat and humid ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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