Six White cockatoos

Una Paluma Blanca.

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July 9th 2010
I’m sitting in a shelter from the cloud on a black plastic sofa at 2950 feet in the village of Paluma. Antony dropped me off at Little Crystal Creek this morning so that I could walk the 11km into the village, through the wet tropic World Heritage rainforest. It was a great walk - steeply up hill the whole way through ancient, still, preternaturally quiet forest cut only by the other worldly sq ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Townsville

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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