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Australia: Far North Queensland

As my blessed mother would say “it happens in the best of homes” when something went wrong.  She certainly did not have a complete computer crash – and an external hard drive back-up! – in mind, but that is what I had to contend with, at the end of my trip to Australia.  I won’t [...]

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Australia: The magic of the Great Barrier Reef

When I dutifully booked an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns, I did so more out of a sense of duty of having to visit this one of Australia’s most iconic destinations.  I owed it to myself, I said, since I am in FNQ – Far Northern Queensland – as the locals call [...]

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