A very excited sailor

Day 18 Tall ships and more snorkelling

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November 14th 2013
So today we are up at 6.15. My lovely cooked breakfast has been replaced with the standard 'hotel packed breakfast' as we had to be on a bus by 7.15. One of the things we had planned was a short time in the Whitsundays but it was all booked up so hence the stay at Airlie Beach. And to at least get a look, we booked a day out on a tall ship, called the Derwent Hunter, sailing around the isl ... 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