Bats in trees

East coast Australia

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January 17th 2009
Well, here we are in Townsville on our day before last in Australia and we have to admit that we are actually really looking forward to our flight out of here...! We are flying tonight from Townsville to Brisbane and tomorrow lunch time we will be flying to Singapore. We should probably start from the beginning: we arrived in Sydney on the 28th December and were looking forward to spending New Yea ... 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