The Green

Monkey Mia

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September 21st 2008
Well we all had a good sleep and headed off from Nanga bay and went to investigate Shell beach, here the beach was covered in shells and the odd green bush type plant. The shells are washed up from sea onto the beach they say it is around 30 meters deep, their is a quarry to the left of the beach and they chop blocks of the crushed shells and use then for bricks and the dusty bits for chicken f ... 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