Whitehaven Beach

Whitsundays Sailing/Lee's Birthday

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May 7th 2007
I think we were a bit breathless still from the Fraser Island trip to be honest that we didn't really notice the fact that we had a 14 hour bus trip from Rainbow Beach to Airlie Beach. Oz is so big that the bus journeys seem to blend into one another and you get used to it. "Just down the road" to a North Queenslander means anything between 2 and 12 hours. Understatement is a way of life in these ... 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