Amelia and our carriage

The Railway Children

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July 1st 2013
After a slightly panicked drive from our campsite to Freshwater train station, it was a case of hurry up and wait. The station itself is like a wild west style wooden panelled building with a low cement platform. When eventually the locomotive trundled into view, I was slightly disappointed to see that it was a modern diesel pulling the carriages, not an old steam train, but I soon got over it, as ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Kuranda

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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