The whole crew on Christmas Eve

I Don't Think We're In Kansas Anymore!

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December 28th 2008
It has been five long years, but I am finally back down under, like Dorothy I fell asleep one day (I happened to do it on an airplane) and arrived the next day in Oz. We spent the first week or so of our trip in Wollongong, a beach community about 1 1/2 hours drive south of Sydney. After a small bump in the road getting here (our plane was delayed 1 1/2 hours), we finally arrived to one customs of ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Wollongong

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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