The Swan River

Holiday in Australia - Day 51

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March 10th 2006
Well I'm on a roll with the travel blogs now!!! I hope you all appreciated how long it took me to update what I had been doing for the last 3 weeks. Apologies if you received a number of emails, you all know that computers and me don't mix!!! Anyway, I have taken today very leisurely indeed. Headed into Perth in the morning and had a walk around the city and along the river. It was really int ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth

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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