The Moheno

Wabby wakes

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May 7th 2006
Spent most of the morning lazing around Lake Wabby, a huge, algea-green lake boarded by a massive tropical rainforst on one side and exhausting Sahara-esk sand-dunes on the other. It wasn't quite as stunning as Lake Makenzie, but fun to swim with the large black cat-fish and roll straight down the burning white dunes into the cool water. During the afternoon we raced across the sands to the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island

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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