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Whale Watching

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September 30th 2010
Towards the end of September, we decided to go Whale Watching with Penny. We travelled about 4 hours up the coast to Hervey Bay - the jump off point for Fraser Island. We camped overnight (in a NEW tent that we purchased the week before) before setting off early the next morning on a boat trip to find some hump-back whales. The hump-back whales travel up from Antarctica in winter to give birth and ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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