Cairns from Skyrail

Cairns and Cape Trib

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July 30th 2008
Cairns: Arrived around midnight to warm, humid weather - and got checked in and in bed by 1:30 am or so. We did a gondola ride up to Kuranda, a small village in the mountains, where we spent most of the afternoon browsing in their Market - I bought a necklace made of jungle seeds (are you even surprised?!), and Greg was really taken with some photography of the area, and we bought some panorama ... 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