Cairns Zoo

Cairns Zoo

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April 11th 2012
And so to the last day of our short break! With a little bit of time to fill in this morning before our flight back to Melbourne this afternoon, we headed off to the Cairns Zoo. We watched the pelicans being fed before heading to the Free-flight Bird Show. As we waited for the show to start there was a short shower of rain. After five days of glorious weather it looked like taking a bit of ... 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