The Daintree Rainforest

Daintree-mendous!

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February 27th 2007
The drive from Airlie Beach to Port Douglas was another long one. These long drives are very boring as the scenery is just tree after tree, interdespersed occasionally by sugar cane plots. The only interesting thing about this drive though was that we moved into very tropical areas as we headed north with landscape changing accordingly. We started seeing palm trees, crocodile warnings and even ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Port Douglas

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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