Coral

Great Barrier Reef

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March 5th 2008
Coral Reef Snorkeling & Diving Up and at'em early, a bus comes to pick us up at 7:50. We miss a few pickups and people are late getting the bus so we arrive at the wharf just a little late. We book in and are numbers 61 + 62 on Passions of Paradise tour to the Great Barrier Reef. I am stoked as we get on a catamaran that's packed. We find seats to sign our lives away and set up our charge accou ... 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