Cutie pie and child

Koalas, Kangaroos, and Cairns

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July 3rd 2010
Sitting in cloudy Port Douglas fresh back from a three or four mile stroll down the beach, the dulcet snores from Antony thrumming from the driver’s seat next to me. Some awful creature has taken it upon itself to drink blood straight from my knee bone: the raised wound there is pulsing in a most unseemly fashion. It’s 12:49pm on Saturday. Brazil are out. So are Ghana. Ha. Feel the pain, suck ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Port Douglas

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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