Dinner

Day 9 - Cairns

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July 5th 2017
Today was the day - chucking myself out a plane. I woke up at 5:30am, so nervous, it hadn't quite sunk in yet. We were meeting at 7:30am so I had a couple of hours to kill so I tried to read my book, but it didn't calm me down at all. Anyway, the bus finally arrived and I was sh*tting one. We got to the skydive 'hang out' and put our harnesses on and signed our lives away. There were only five of ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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