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Aboard the Cruise Whitsundays ship to the outer Barrier Reef - Airlie Beach in the background  
   

Aboard the Cruise Whitsundays ship to the outer Barrier Reef - Airlie Beach in the background

Australia - Down Under - The Great Barrier Reef

December 25th 2008
We leave Singapore at 10pm aboard a Jetstar plane, the budget airline subsidiary of Qantas. It’s basic but comfortable, though we have to buy any alcoholic drinks to go with our food. We decide to indulge after our travel traumas (amazing how far you can stretch a story like that!!), C having some red wine & a Jim Beam, while M has a red label scotch whiskey (which he the proceeds to spill all o ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Great Barrier Reef

Australian Flag 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
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