Fraser Island

Sunshine Coast and Fraser Island!!

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April 23rd 2006
I've arrived at the Sunshine Coast - I'm once again a traveller!! I flew into Maroochydore a week ago - Easter Sunday. I stayed at a backpackers called the Cotton Tree Beachhouse Backpackers - it was a nice, quiet hostel. Sadly, though, the first day I stayed in Maroochydore it rained...and so instead of heading to the beach, I spent a few hours at the shopping mall. Not exactly what I had planned ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Rainbow 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