Watch for Tree Kangaroos!

Being tourists - waterfalls and a surprise

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July 16th 2015
From Townsville we drove to Innisfail - back into sugar and banana growing country and the Wet Tropics. Innisfail is a big place, quite multicultural with a large Italian population. We had a quick look around, then turned off the highway and drove on to Mission Beach. This area is called the Cassowary Coast, another far north Queensland area where the rainforest meets the reef and also home of th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Atherton

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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