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Raging Tully

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September 17th 2008
Back on the road and up through the sugar cane and little narrow gauge railways that link the massive farms with the main depots and main lines. Our next stop was Mission Beach in the wet tropics. Another of the World Heritage Areas of Australia and home to the Cassowary, a very large blue bird with a terrifying hard horn, it has been know to de-bowel people! A very small coastal town very c ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Mission 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