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Cairns

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January 12th 2008
Magnetic Island to Carins Cairns is my departure city and brings the 3500 km overland trip with Oz Exprience to an end. Difficult to believe I've travelled that much distance and the overland trip is finished. We stopped by in a croc farm on the way to Cairns, which was fun but creepy! The Great Barrier Reef The Dive schools didn't let me do a PADI course as I would have ... 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