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Botanic Gardens

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July 13th 2008
Our last day in our lovely Cairns hotel has arrived. We've done all of the main things we wanted to in while we were here, so we look at various brochures for ideas about what to do today. In the end, we decide on the Botanic Gardens... It's a beautiful day. We take the bus to a point near the gardens, and walk from there. The gardens turn out to be very different from what we had imagined. It ... read more

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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