Mission Beach

More Rain? Too Bloody Right Mate!

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March 14th 2008
Well, after the somewhat underwhelming Ayers Rock experience, we were off to Cairns. We were excited to hit the coast, and get away from the outback and head for the ocean. We touched down in Cairns to buckets of rain, and that's the way it stayed for 2 days non-stop. Turns out the humidity never drops below about 97%. We were holed up in a really nice place called Dreamtime which had a cafe attac ... 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