Wilsons Promontory

Sydney to Melbourne Road Trip

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January 6th 2006
Just before I left Sydney on a road trip, I met up with my old London house mate Susie Scott, after a great Italian meal and a bottle of wine she decided we were going to borrow her brothers car and drive to the Blue Mountains the following day. On leaving Sydney it was slightly cloudy, but on arrival in the Blue Mountains, we were in the cloud and it drizzled all day long! As we couldn't admire t ... 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