In the Aquarium of the GBR

July 13th 2007
I crossed the Tropic of Capricorn sometime during the night on the over night train. I left Brisbane at 6 pm and arrived at Townsville 18 hours later. I slept quite well on this swanky train, the Tilt Train. We had seats, not sleeping compartments, but they tilted back quite far. Each seat had a television, and several channels. One channel was a live camera from the front of the train, you could ... read more

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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

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Chris Lock

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I am a high school teacher. You can see all my photos at My online photos The summer of 2006 was my third summer in a row that I travelled for the entire summer. In 2006 I travelled to London, then Greece, Turkey and Egypt. The summer of 2007 was a trip to Australia. The summer of 2008 was a trip from Cape Town to Nairobi, 6 weeks in a truck with an overland tour company. June to September 2009 was the longest trip at 10 weeks. I visited Central Europe, the Balkans and a side trip for the last week in Paris. The summer of 2010, I cross... full info

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