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2 Great Days in the Rainforest and the Reef

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October 24th 2008
We have spent 2 fantastic days in the Cairns area. Cairns is a strange town in that there isn't that much to see in Cairns itself, it is more of a hub for seeing everything around it. On Wednesday John and I drove up to the Rainforest, we drove about 2 hours north of Cairns to a place called Daintree, we drove along the coast road which literally goes along the coast and you can see the waves cra ... 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