Calypso Inn - Cairns

Tropical Queensland: Cairns - Townsville

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October 2nd 2007
This week we started our trip down the East Coast. This started in Cairns after spending half the day at Brisbane airport. It was here we heard a plane had almost been struck by lightening..not what you want to hear just before getting on one! Added to that it was raining, although it's not quite what we Welsh would call rain, bit like spitting really! Anyway, we arrived in Cairns slightly m ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Townsville

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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