Flooded road

Rainforests, Reef's and Rough Seas! Arrrg Matey....

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March 8th 2008
After a very long trip we arrived in Cairns. We had a 4 hour flight to Melbourne where we had to wait for 4 hours and then had a 5 hour flight to Cairns, luckily we slept a lot of the way. Crazy timezones meant we went 2 hours ahead of Perth in Melbourne and then an hour back again when we got to Cairns! We arrived to find it absolutely pouring with rain. We had to make a run for it from the pl ... 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