getting ready

Minjin Swing

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February 23rd 2006
Our last full day in Cairns, so we had to do a Minjin Swing. All day non-stop it was raining, got drenched even tho we wore our rain jackets, but we were still both very excited. When we got to AJ Hackett Bungy we watched a few bungys, above a small waterfall and stream, and one minjin swing, which is when we realised what we had got ourselves in to! We got harnessed up in smelly wet harnesses a ... 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