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Koalas and Kangaroos!

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June 20th 2009
Just a quick update today. Last Wednesday we decided to go on an afternoon coach trip to the Swan Valley and Caversham Wildlife Park. The Swan valley is very beautiful, full of vineyards and quaint farming properties. The first stop of the tour was at a chocolate factory. I was quite disappointed here, as you could only look through a small window into the factory and couldn't really see ... 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