Saxton Reef

Cairns

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September 16th 2005
G'day mates! hope to find you all well and in fine spirits. Well as you can see from the title, we have now arrived in Oz! And so far we are LOVING IT!!! Cairns was our first port of call and we were amazed at how small of a place it is. Just a population of 140,000 and it is very spread out. From there we visited the Great Barrier Reef and even though neither of us can swim we managed ... 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