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Cairns- Catch me if you can!

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June 7th 2007
Greetings from Cairns, the best known city on the Queensland coast. A tropical, laid-back yet modern centre where anything is possible including rain, rain and more rain. Myself, Brenda and Lindsay arrived here last Tuesday (May 29th) in an effort to escape the downpours of Mission Beach. We checked into the Cairns Beach House that nite and were suckered into our "free meal" which still managed to ... 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