ADam at the Opera House

Sunburned in Sydney

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January 16th 2009
Wow I'm finally in the southern hemisphere. The first thing I did after disembarking from my Cathay Pacific flight was run to the bathroom. Was I sick? No way! I was just curious. I had always heard that water flushed to the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere. So I ran to the cammode and flushed like a wild man. The bummer of it all was that I couldn't really remember what direct ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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