Rafting the Tully River

Jumping from 14,000 ft!

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July 6th 2006
Okay, so as I was saying in my last entry, Matt won a package to go skydiving and white-water-rafting, so naturally he convinced myself and Paul to come along. At first, I said "No, absolutely not", but after a while I thought, how amazing would that be to free fall for a full minute on a beautiful sunny day, above the great barrier reef, and then to land on a beach. I was sold! I woke up the mor ... 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