Stephen cycling on Mission Beach

I don't like cricket!

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January 10th 2007
We arrived at Port Douglas about 6.30pm on Christmas Eve, which didn't give us much time to make our arrangements for Christmas Day. All we were certain of was that we had an apartment, a bottle of champagne and the presents we'd bought for each other in Melbourne. We soon discovered that the town's only supermarket had closed till Boxing Day, which wasn't a promising start. Visions of sitting hun ... 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