The Stingray Caught by Bill

Noosa

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December 16th 2008
We flew down from Cairns to Brisbane and picked up our hire car at the airport having decided not to stay in Brisbane. A couple of hours later and the sat nav brought us to the address of our hostel in Noosa that we had booked a few days earlier. Only there is no sign of the hostel, no board advertising its name, just a for sale sign outside of what looked like a shut up private residence. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Noosa

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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