The only falling water we wanted to see!

Arrrrh me hearties, I've been bitten by a blood sucker!

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March 10th 2007
After our little jaunt on a farm we hot-footed it further up the east coast and stopped in Mackay. I had heard that Eungulla National Park just outside Mackay had some spectacular rainforest and we decided to hire a car for the day, take a picnic and enjoy a little stroll through the trees- We should have known that this was a bad idea if you remember back to our Chang Mai blog (rainforest, monsoo ... 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