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whitsunday national park sailing

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September 17th 2008
We awoke early on the Wednesday morning all very excited and apprehensive. We had checked onto our boat the day before only to be told at half past four that the boat would not be going out and after we had spent a very long time looking through the boats and offers back in Brisbane before finally selecting our boat we now had only a few hours to organise a trip or we would loose our chance to see ... 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