Sunset over the Whitsundays

Airlie Beach/Whitsundays

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April 16th 2007
Arrived at Airlie Beach ( so called party capital of the coast, though not that great really!) and booked onto our voyage around the Whitsundays aboard 'Freight Train' ( daft name i know!). We headed out early the next am for 3 days of sailing - prospects were good and the wind was due to be up to 20 knots for the next few days, so some proper sailing was defo on the cards! We climbed aboard our ... 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