Which way to the nearest waterhole?!? (Beating the heat in the not-so-Wet Tropics)
December 4th 2015 Leaving Airlie Beach behind, our final week on the road started with the long, boring haul to Townsville almost three hours to the north. It was during this stretch that we really began to notice just how dry the countryside had become, and it wasn't pleasant to see herds of cattle picking at the dry, dusty ground that in some places appeared to offer no grass at all. With this in mind we headed s
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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 
