The view from the skyrail

The Far North of Queensland: From Beach to Tropical Rainforest

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August 18th 2008
Sorry for the long gap between blogs! Finding affordable internet and a computer that reads my camera card has been hard recently! But I've finally found one so here's the first of two new entries for you! Enjoy... We arrived in Cairns after a luxury Business Class train journey where our seats were huge and had their own personal televisions in them, just like on an airplane! Although Cairns ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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