The Reef View Hotel

Leaving Hamilton Island

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January 23rd 2012
This morning we packed up and left our luggage in our room for the porters to collect whilst we checked out and enjoyed a buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant which looked over their pool. Unfortunately none of us really got our money’s worth from the buffet breakfast, not even Will. Clearly too much steak! Our flight from the Island back to Sydney was at 3pm so we decided to use the Island ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hamilton Island

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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