Carry On Coasting - Town 1770, Airlie Beach, Magnetic Island/Townsville
April 21st 2007 Moving on from Hervey Bay we visited carried on our tour of the East Coast at the small town of Town 1770. After a short journey on the greyhound (4 hours!) we got off the coach and quite bizarrely got picked up by a guy, his own car and a dog. I have to admit it sounds a bit ominous at first, especially as it was pretty dark at the time but we got in with other people so we felt fairly safe that
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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 
