Arrival on Fraser

Treading the Tourist Trail through Fraser Island and the Whitsundays

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March 18th 2009
This severely backdated blog (it is now actually 18th May as I write this!) on what are arguably the two jewels in the crown of Australia's east coast can be blamed on a lack of reliable internet and the fact that I have been living in the far reaches of the outback for the last seven weeks or so on a constant cycle of working and boozing it up. Travelling up the east coast has meant meeting m ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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