At Whitehaven Beach

Whitsundays

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April 27th 2008
We arrived at Airlie Beach after a 5 hour greyhound journey and found our hostel - Beaches. In the deal that we booked in Cairns our free accommodation should have been at Magnums but we'd heard bad things about it and so Travelbugs agreed to upgrade us to Beaches for free as we'd spent so much booking all our trips through them. We saw a few people on the bus that we'd seen in Cairns and Magnet ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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