Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island

Farewell Oz.....

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June 12th 2009
Hey, Welcome to my final entry from Australia. We fly to Singapore tomorrow for the final leg of our journey. I believe we had just returned from the Whitsunday's last time so I'll pick up from there...... We headed north (naturally) to Townsville, which was a really weird place. There seemed to be nobody around! We only stayed to one night, on which we went to see the North Queensland Cowb ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

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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