The Glass House Mountains

On way to Brisbane

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March 11th 2006
Bus at 8am, straight to so called 'Rainbow Beach' named beacuse it has over 70 different colours, but all i saw was one sand colour and a strange looking grey - not pretty at all! Our bus driver, Claire, took us to the beach to tell us all about aboriginal culture. But it started to rain. So we moved. She told us about the culture and iv forgotten it already but we tried to play a didjaridoo (n ... 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