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East Coast Stop Five - Noosa Heads and Fraser Island

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July 6th 2013
We left Surfer’s Paradise on 2ndJuly and had a drive of around 2 and a half hours to reach our next stop up the coast – Noosa Heads. It was another easy and scenic drive, and on the way Emma noticed that we were passing a place called Underwater World in Mooloolaba which is one of the attractions included on our Merlin Annual passes that we bought back in Sydney when we first arrived. A ... 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