Boarding our Great Barrier reef boat

Finding Nemo!

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April 17th 2007
G'day mates! Well we're finally here in Oz after our false start last week when we turned up at the airport only to be told that we weren't on any flights they had that day and that our travel agent had changed our flights to Easter sunday and not told us, how rude! This meant we got to spend a couple more days in Christchurch just hanging around waiting to fly to Oz which felt like a lifeti ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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