Enjoying the oysters at Sydney's fish market

Sydney pick up

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January 12th 2009
The past few days in Sydney have been jammed packed. I was feeling ridiculously homesick the last time I wrote and didn't want to let it get me down so made a conscious effort to keep myself busy. My friend Jenna lives out here so took some time off work to show me around. The first day we visited Palm Beach aka Summer Bay where Home & Away is filmed. It's not usually the sort of thing I would th ... 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