Entry 7: We're off to see the Westcoast, the wonderful Westcoast of Oz...
November 26th 2007 After 36 hours of travelling, which included three separate flights, we’d jumped forward nine hours to get to Sydney (via Johannesburg) and then lost two, by flying the width of Australia once again to arrive in Perth.
We were met at the airport in Perth on the 12th of November by Tina; a lady who I’d met twice and Sam once only a month previous. The unfortunate circumstances of a family funer
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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 
