Flower Archway

Exploring Brisbane in the rain

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February 6th 2008
Brisbane had lots to offer in terms of sight-seeing- and most of it was free! They had a free bus service that shuttled people in between the most popular sights (we didn’t know this until the last day, but we felt that we saw a lot more walking anyways). We saw a bit more of the city when we got on the wrong ferry! We wondered through the City Botanical Gardens in such of the planetarium ... 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