Black Swans on Albert Park Lake

The final days in Melbourne

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August 26th 2007
Hello everyone We have now finished our time in Melbourne and have begun two months of travel before we stop again, in Sydney. We are currently in Albany on the south coast of WA, but more of that in the next blog. As we haven't updated the blog for a while, we wanted to update you all on the last few bits and pieces in melbourne first, in an attempt to keep the entries from getting too long ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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