Rex lookout on Captain Cook Highway

19th February 2008

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February 20th 2008
19th February 2008 When we woke up in Mackay this morning it had stopped raining!!! By the time we got back from breakfast at a nice cafe we had found the night before, the sun was almost out and the temperature was rising. We also had at last found a motel with a good wireless internet connection and was able to catch up with Tom and the grandchildren in Canada and Gran and Neal at home in En ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Port Douglas

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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