Dinner on the esplanade

Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef

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April 16th 2009
Thursday 9th April Our bus to Cairns was delayed by an hour, so on arriving in our hostel we quickly changed clothes and headed down to the bar where we were meeting Steve, one of the guys from Fraser Island. It's great catching up with everyone we meet up the coast, we can all share stories and it's nice to see familiar faces. We didn't stay up for long though as we knew we had to get up early ... 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