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Paluma & Crystal Creek
(Mar 17 '07)
This past weekend I took a day trip with the James Cook Student Association to Paluma and Little Crystal Creek. There were about 30 students that went on the trip, a large majority being American. ...
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Billabong Sanctuary in Townsville
(Feb 16 '99)
Townsville is where James Cook University is and where I will be staying for the next 4 months. It is also a huge tourist attraction for many reasons. One reason is because of the Great Barrier ...
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James Cook University
(Feb 08 '06)
So I have received many requests to talk about my school, and my living accommodations. So here it is...
I am attending James Cook University. JCU has about 10,700 students. Way less than I am ...
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Reef HQ Aquarium
(Mar 03 '06)
This past Friday, my friends Cortney and Carrie and I went into town to check out the Reef HQ Aquarium. It is the world's largest living reef aquarium, and I got to see it!!! It was wicked cool. ...
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Whitfundays
(Feb 24 '07)
Am just on my way up to Townville, for no other reason than to watch the rugby tonight. Don't know anything about the place, and don't really think i am going to stay there for too long- places to be ...
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"O week" has begun! This whole week I have several sessions and activities all planned out. Some are for me to enroll in classes, others are there to ...
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Nemo, Dory, Shrek ... and the rain
(Jun 21 '07)
Morning flight training and rain made for an early wake up call. We headed off into Townsville and were pleasantly surprised to find it was very easy to navigate around and there was free parking ...
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Townsville
(Mar 17 '07)
3.17.2007 Townsville, Australia
Townsville was founded in 1864 and is the heart of North Queensland with a population of 130,000. It is a busy port city for the agricultural and mining production ...
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The Great Barrier Reef
(Apr 07 '07)
The day started bright and early, we had to catch a bus at 730 am to get to the boat terminal on time. The boat that took us out to the reef was much bigger than I had expected. There were 120 ...
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Wallaman Falls
(Mar 23 '07)
Wallaman Falls is Australia's largest single drop waterfall, it falls 305 meters (1000 feet). I've heard from a lot of people that it is a spectacular sight and definately something that you should ...
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Recent Blogs for Townsville
Magnetic Island (pop. 2,100)
(Dec 09 '07)
Magnetic Island, mehr als die Haelfte der 52km2 grossen Insel ist Nationalpark. Jeder erzaehlt dir, hier musst du hin. Sie ist nur 20 Minuten mit der Faehre von Townsville entfernt. Die Insel ist auch ...
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Magical Magnetic Island
(Oct 11 '07)
From Cairns we cruised down the coast to Mission Beach where we stayed for a couple nights. We were able to do a rainforest walk in search of the endangered cassowary (a really big, flightless ...
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Today we did a bit of our own thing. We both got up early - Julia to do a 2 hour horseback ride including time in the bush, trotting, cantering (fell completely ...
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