Lose your head...

...at the Townsville museum!

August 20th 2005
After the Whitsundays, we took the bus up to Townsville, purportedly the world's largest tropical city, but more importantly home of the "Museum of Tropical Queensland" where we spent most the day we had there. The highlight of this excellent museum is the displays and artefacts from the wreck of the HMS Pandora, the ship sent to sail the south seas and round up, capture and bring the HMS ... 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

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We started this travel blog in 2005 when we set off on a ten-month around-the-world trip with a couple of backpacks and not much else. In 2008, we emigrated to New Zealand with four suitcases and a guitar and spent the first month travelling throughout the country, from Auckland to Christchurch, via a roundabout route. We now live in Christchurch and post the odd blog now and again...whenever the travel bug bites. Happy reading! Also, for a non-travel related blog, see whatdoesawombateat?... full info

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