Moon rise

Cairns getaway

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December 12th 2008
So we went home to Australia for the month. It was great. A few days in Melbourne catching up with friends, then up to Cairns to catch up with my best man and the Grandparents. We splurged and stayed five nights in the Rydges Trade Winds on the Esplanade. It was great, days hanging with the Grandparents, nights lazing by the pool or eating glorious sea food. Splash was the pick of restaurants we 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