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Sailing the ocean blue

July 5th 2008
We arrived at Airlie beach on (another) beautifully sunny day and literally gasped at our first view of the turquoise water and the green islands studded around the bay and out to the horizon. This was to be one of the highlights of our trip to Australia and the reality more than lived up to the expectation. We had chosen a two day one night sailing trip around the Whitsunday islands (named by the ... read more
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Australian Flag 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
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