Sydney to Hobart Race...

Merry Christmas...snow is falling!!

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December 30th 2005
Sun 25th Dec - Fri 30th Dec ...not really! This Christmas…quite different from the usual cold wet ones I’m used to...I'm melting!! Managed to get down to Coogee Beach for the afternoon with new buddy, Irish Erika - loveliest girl ever! (gotta write that cuz she might be reading this!) she can sure talk the hind legs off a donkey but that’s the Irish for you! Anyway, having spent the af ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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