Snorkelling Together

Whitsundays Cruise

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November 21st 2006
We arrived in Airlie Beach a day before our scheduled cruise, which we'd booked nearly two months earlier in Queenstown. On recommendations from Laura's friend Carolyn, we chose the Avatar vessel from the mass of available options, in an attempt to avoid the numerous booze cruises full of English & German, Club 18-30, lager lout types. According to a number of locals, we chose well (thanks Carolyn ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Whitsundays

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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