Aboard the Kiana

East coast road trip

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May 6th 2006
So, something i forgot to mention in the last blog (Jo thinks on purpose) was our slight mishap on the first day of the road trip. We turned up early to pick up Percy the campervan, and got the credit card out to pay the not insubstantial amount of cash to hire it for two months. It was bumped up a lot by deciding to take out full insurance with no excess, peace of mind and all that. Before tak ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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