Kip heads for the casino.

Day 24 - Auckland to Cairns

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November 26th 2008
We had an early 5:30a wake-up call today so that we could grab the 6:15a bus to the airport for our 9:00a flight to Sydney. We flew Air New Zealand and, as with Qantas, we found them to have the same great on-board service that we used to have on US flights many moons ago. For breakfast, we had a choice between a hot breakfast of potato-eggs with bacon or the continental breakfast with cereal, y ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

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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