Santosa Island

My Penfriend

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November 20th 2007
A Happy Day. We had an early meeting with Helena my Penfriend of 50 years and her husband See Mung who have lived in S'pore all their lives and who's family is similar to ours. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to sample the locality and customs beyond our westernised hotel and it's immediate surroundings and fast food enviroment. We began with a traditional chinese breakfast, did much sightse ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth » Scarborough

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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