Big leaf

Cairns and surrounding

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March 23rd 2007
Bry speaking: Plane trip from Perth was the worst so far... despite being the shortest at 4 hours. It left at 11.30pm and got in at 5ish (local time) and neither of us got a wink. Unlike SE Asia the hostels here don't open until at least 7am so we had a not so amusing dawn wait at Cairns bus depot. We still haven't adjusted to the book-ahead thing, so it took a few shots to find somewhere with a ... 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