over the canopy

Skyrail to Heaven

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September 25th 2008
We took the sky rail out of Cairns, basically a ski cable car which reminded us a lot about our time in France, apart from the scenery of course. It took high over the rain forest canopy and up into the hills to the small tourist town of Kuranda. Like most of these high Queensland settlements it was first a base for logging the large rain forest trees before gold was discovered and then it boomed ... 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