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Tropical Cairns

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March 10th 2008
Hello all, We are here in Cairns and have been now for almost a week. The weather has been comparable to that at home. It is approaching the wet season so we have had a few rainy days stuck in the hostel playing cards and almost going crazy! Other than that however, we took a rainforest walk on Tuesday and visited a few water falls and a lot of strange Australian nature i.e. a deadly stingi ... read more

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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