Sunset in Cairns

I come from a land down under!

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June 11th 2011
Greetings from Oz! We've arrived in Mission Beach down the East Coast of Australia now, having spent the last 10 days between Perth and Cairns. As we mentioned in the last blog entry the rainy weather on our arrival in Oz was a bit of a shock to the system after the sunshine of Asia, but 3 days in the sun returned which was a new lease of life! The sunshine meant that we got the chance to hang ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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