Looking out onto Whitehaven Beach

Great Week in Australia

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November 2nd 2008
It has been over a week since we updated the blog, we have travelled about 1500Km in this time. On our last day in Cairns we went to Port Douglas which is a town about an hour north of Cairns, we just walked around the town and chilled out on the beach. After the 2 days in the Reef and the Rainforest we needed a bit of relaxation. We picked up our car in Cairns on the Saturday night and starte ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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