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Old Fears and New Friends

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December 20th 2005
Welcome to Australia. We arrived a few days ago here in Cairns. This is a city in Queensland which is the NE section of the country/continent. Oh yeah check that off the list new continent visited. The city is mainly a beach town (without an actual beach) and relies mainly (exclusively) on tourism. The main tourism is the Great Barrier Reef. For those of you that missed a retell of our sordi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » open water

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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