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5th August, Tuesday We left Mission Beach in the pouring rain.  Thankfully we didn’t have any more mountains passes to tackle, it wouldn’t have b...

History (wikipedia) In the early 20th century Chinese banana farmers employed Aborigines as labourers in the Tully River region. Opium addiction and c...

Cooktown (wikipedia) is a small town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. At the time of the 2011 census, Cooktown had a populati...

Port Douglas (wikipedia) is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately 70 km (40 mi) north of Cairns. Its permanent population was 3,2...

The Atherton Tableland (wikipedia) is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It is located west to sout...

Georgetown (wikipedia) is a town on the Etheridge River in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Gulf Developmental Road passes through the town, linki...

Normanton (wikipedia) is a small cattle town in the Gulf Country region of northwest Queensland, Australia, just south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, on ...

History of Cloncurry (Wikipedia) is a town situated in the north-west of Queensland, Australia, 770 kilometres west of the city of Townsville via th...

Mount Isa (Wikipedia) is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. It came into existence because of the vast mineral deposits fou...

26th June Thursday We eventually got out of Darwin and are heading towards Tennant creek.  We stopped off at Pine Creek to let Hugo out and have a lo...