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Stupid Cyclone Hamish! *Updated pics*

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March 12th 2009
Morning Campers! Greeting from a very wet and windy Rainbow Beach where we have been stuck FOR NEARLY A WEEK due to the stupid weather we are having right now!! OK, so we left Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday's behind last Wednesday, and off we went on a 11 hour bus ride to a COMPULSORY cattle station overnight stop called, "Kroombit". We were a little annoyed we HAD to stop there, but when w ... 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