Steve's bog standard present

A week in pretty Port Douglas

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June 23rd 2010
This will be as far north as our caravan will travel, a short but very pictureskew road made a fantastic drive to Port Douglas, and our week here is shaping up to be a fantastic one. The start of World Cup football (not soccer), State of Origin 2, and yes, Steve’s birthday. Though when that paragraph was written, in the present tense, it is really the past tense because the first part of the blo ... 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