Theo was so excited to get in the water!

The Great Barrier Reef, baby!!

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July 4th 2011
Fourth of July! The winds out on Great Barrier Reef had swayed us into waiting until our last full day before booking a trip to the reef. The tour company that we chose was an outfit named Quicksilver. They have a pontoon built in a lagoon on the Outer Reef that basically resembled a floating two story building. It had a seating area on the top and the bottom deck was equipped with changing ro ... 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