Byron Bay Beach

From Sydney to Fraser Island

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April 6th 2008
Greetings from Queensland and the Sunshine Coast - although I'm doing my blog because it's raining here at the moment! It is still warm though, hopefully it will clear up so I can go for a dip in the sea later. So we have been travelling in the car for about 10 days now, and still have a lot of driving to do before we get to Cairns. It doesn't look that far on a map! We started off driving to Bo ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay » Fraser Island

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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