Magnetic Island

Leaving Sydney but we will be back.

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January 5th 2009
Entry by Jules Friday 02/01/09 Our last morning in Sydney for this part of the trip and we both felt a little sad to be leaving our hotel room and that view - you really could just stare at it all day. But we would be back to a different part of Sydney in six days and there was plenty of things to do in Queensland in between. After a short flight up to Townville we hopped on a fe ... read more

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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