Sydney

New Year's in Sydney!

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January 1st 2006
I always knew that I wanted to spend the New Year's celebrations in Sydney, if at all possible. I ended up staying in Newcastle with Carina till the 31st of December, when we left Newcastle at 8:00AM. We got to Sydney at around 11, and met up with Jon - one of the Canadians I had met at the hostel in Canberra! We made our way to the Botanical Gardens (with large bags of food). We got there at a ... 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