Whitsunday Island

Great Barrier Reef

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May 12th 2015
It was dark when we tendered back to the ship, not late, but still dark. It gave me time to reflect about the glorious day I just had and realize how luck to be me. We were picked up earlier in the day by the Hamilton Air Company and brought to the airport for our flight over the Great Barrier Reef. Thankfully we all had a window seat and off we went over a breathtaking landscape out to the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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