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Airlie Beach and Whitsudays...

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September 13th 2006
A self explanitory title After five lazy days in Bowen, we drove 140km south to Airlie Beach. Arlie beach is a jumping restort town, despite its name is has NO beach...mmn...but a huge lagoon -or- swimming pool as we know know it. Backpackers arrive by the coach load to seek the beautiful Whitsundays Islands, beaches, sailing, and boozy doo's. Unfortunately the weather was bad for ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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