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Queensland Day 5

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December 14th 2009
Last day at Cairns. This last day at Cairns was a break for the two of us. After about 10 hours of sleep and a late breakfast, we shopped around the city for a little bit, went to the hotel’s pool for sun-tanning in the afternoon. The sun was really strong, we were dehydrating badly after being under the sun directly for more than 30 minutes and the freckles on my face were growing at light s ... 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