Our first hostel in Cairns - plush eh!

Cairns to the Whitsunday Islands

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February 21st 2007
G'day all. Before I start my Australia blog I just want to explain why you may have been receiving alerts to blogs that you have already seen. The reason is that the Travelblog server crashed a few months ago and lost several of my blogs in the process. I was able to recover the photographs for them all but all the text for the Thailand and Singapore entries has been lost. You can imagine how disa ... 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