Maxi Ragamuffin

We are sailing

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January 10th 2009
Entry by Rich Tuesday 06/01/09 The company which operates the trip to the Great Barrier Reef also has a day cruise out to Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island. We decided instead to head out to the same beach on a sailing boat - the Maxi Ragamuffin. This is a famous boat in Australia as it won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race three times before being retired to operate as a tourist cr ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie 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