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Sailing in the Whitsunday islands

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April 2nd 2007
Well i left Rainbow beach to set off for the next stop of Airlie Beach our link to the Whitsunday Islands. I arrived after a mammoth 18hr bus journey where i had to wait around in Hervey Bay for 3 and a half hours, feeling very tired and it being only 6:15am i headed to my hostel to find reception closed and wouldnt be open for another 45 minutes so there i sat there on the road with two other pe ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Whitsundays

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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