Mangrove

The Daintree Rainforest

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March 27th 2013
Today I visited the rainforest at Daintree which is about a two hour drive from Cairns. En-route our driver Lisa pointed out a roundabout on the duel carriageway. She said that a couple of years ago when they had quite bad floods the road flooded quite badly. The water was quite deep but everyone continued to drive through in good Aussie fashion. When the water subsided there left on the roun ... 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