Walk by the Lagoon

Cairns

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December 12th 2009
Well after a nice week in Sydney I flew up to Cairns in the very north of Australia. Being close to the equator, it's in the tropics, meaning dreadfully humid conditions; palm trees; tropical birds and sudden sun to torrential rain type weather. At this time of the year it's the monsoon season - my first day there I'd be sitting in lovely sunshine, next thing I knew it was chucking it down with ra ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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