Deb at Cataract Gorge

Tassie

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April 25th 2007
As a bit of a change from what we'd planned, we decided to visit Tasmania as when we leave Oz we will have visited every State and Territory. We managed to book cheap flights from Melbourne with the budget airline- Virgin Blue. We flew into Launceston in the North. Even though we were both tired from the early morning flight we decided we would walk to Cataract Gorge which is 10 minutes outsid ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania

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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