Queens Beach - Bowen

We are sailing, we are sailing!

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March 27th 2006
Well, we are now in Airlie beach having driven south from Townsville this morning. We've bumped into Tom and Emma, a really nice english couple we first met underneath a waterfall in a national park 3,000km away way out west so will be having a few beers with them tonight. I have just booked myself on a 3 day / 2 night sailing cruise around the Whitsunday Islands and will be setting off afloat ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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