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Cairns: The good, the bad and the ugly

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October 4th 2008
We finally made it up to Cairns on 24 September and went to work putting Helen up for sale. Within half an hour of the first poster going up we started to receive phone calls about her and by 5pm she was sold. It was a pretty hectic day, trying to tidy the van up a bit, meeting various people and supervising test drives and we were knackered by the end of it - we were chuffed that we managed to ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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