Little Croc

Cairns, Kuranda and Cape Tribulation

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June 24th 2007
Made my final Greyhound journey up to Cairns from Townsville, through the sugar fields. From Cairns made an immediate journey up to Kuranda, sadly being a public holiday there were no buses so forced to fork out for a taxi. Kuranda is just 30kms up in the hills above Cairns, usually a daytripper type place to have a meal and buy some souveniers but tried it out as a place to stay for a few days, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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