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Posts Tagged ‘Queensland’

Holiday to Townsville

December 17th, 2009 BigG176

Holiday to Townsville (Self proclaimed capital of Tropical North Queensland) We had some air miles to use up before November courtesy of my old employer BA, so we had a look on the internet for places to go that were with in reach of the air miles I had accrued. After about a week we  Read More »

The Cairns jungle adventure

December 14th, 2009 DoktorSteve

Sorry about yesterdays mardy post about Cairns- I’d just gotten horribly scummy simply walking to the nearest shop to get a bite to eat and the experience put me in a pretty bad frame of mind. Today I decided to use the hostels relative isolation to my advantage and popped over to the Flecker Botanical  Read More »

Miz Behavin

December 1st, 2009 Golden Years

Miz Behavin, a 10m catameran has been our home for the past 10 days as we sailed around the islands that comprise the Whitsundays. Originally called the Cumberland Islands, these were once volcanic mountains slowly drowned by a rising sea. They became known as the Whitsundays because Lt. James Cook sailed into the Passage on  Read More »

Week 8

December 2nd, 2009 KateandMatt

Since last time I bored you we have been to the most amazing beach ever, Weston – Super Ma……..No, that’s the second best. What I was supposed to say was Whitehaven Beach on the Whitsunday Islands. We were recommended a boat tour by a lovely Irish and Ozzy couple we have met a few times  Read More »