Cairns Waterfall

Australia

---

January 29th 2006
We arrived in Australia on Monday. We flew into Sydney and then took another flight to Cairns on the North East coast of Australia. This part of Australia is tropical - very hot and humid at the moment. We went on a cablecar from Cairns to a village in the forest and came back on a train. Very pretty trip. From Cairns we took a bus to Mission Beach. We stayed at Mission Beach for two nights. Mi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

---

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