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Australia, Day 1

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March 2nd 2006
Well... It's taken me a bit to get back to this...Recovering from a transoceanic flight and then catching the requisite cold...which instead of hitting me the day of my arrival smacked me up the morning I was to go back to work...AND the depression of going back to work after a cool trip have beaten me down a bit. Anyway, I'm going to try to add my journal entries and put some photos in here ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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