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Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays

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April 30th 2011
We arrived in Airlie beach in the morning at 9am after a mammoth 13 hour coach ride.  I thought at one point my legs wouldn't work, but they hadn't failed me yet and this was no exception.  Happy days ! After a short walk passed part of the marina I got to Nomads hostel where we would be staying for 2 nights before heading off on our Whitsunday boat - The Atlantic Clipper.  I won' ... 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