Airlie Beach

Australia

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November 16th 2011
Hello from Australia! I've been travelling down the East Coast of Australia for about 3 weeks, the weather is extremely hot here as it's currently Summer (feels very strange in November)! At the moment I'm in a town called Airlie Beach, staying with a friend that I met in Fiji. Tomorrow I'm going on a 2 day sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands, where hopefully I' ... 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