Kangaroo!

The Great Barrier Reef - up close and personal!

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May 22nd 2011
This past weekend I spent in Cairns and it was the first time I really went on my own. I travelled up with the Robson family but after they dropped me off at the hostel for the night that was it! (They did say that I was more than welcome to stay with them in their hotel room, but I really wanted to see what hostels were all about first hand so I could stop worrying about it). Well . . .let ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Great Barrier Reef

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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