Great Barrier Reef 1

Cairns to Airlie Beach

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April 11th 2007
We arrived in Cairns around the middle of the day and taxi’d down to the Travellers’ Oasis hostel. From here we spent the rest of the day sorting our a rental car and hostel for Port Douglas. The next morning we picked up our car and headed north. Our first day at Pt Douglas we drove right up to Cape Tribulation. Here we hiked around on the beaches a bit and walked a couple boardwalks in the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Mosman

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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