The view

The Whitsundays

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October 8th 2008
On to The Whitsundays…… Our domestic flight left Brisbane airport just 20 minutes late which given the appalling weather conditions (torrential rain and high winds!), was not so bad. Unable to see anything from the plane owing to the thick and high cloud we dozed for the majority of the hour and half flight. We arrived in Proserpine just as the clouds were beginning to lift. Proserpine is ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Whitsundays

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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