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Day 42: Fraser Island and Mon Repos Turtle Rookery

January 20th 2013
What a day - all 20 hours of it! We had a 6am start to jump on our pickup for the Fraser Island tour and we got the first ferry across to the island. We were greeted at the other side by a resident female dingo. Approximately 200 of these live wild on the island and even though they look like dogs, they can be pretty vicious and are actually Asian wolves. Our first stop on the island tour was to C ... read more
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Australian Flag 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
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