Cycling on Mission Beach

Smiles and Tribulations. Australia's East Coast

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June 30th 2009
Well g'day and how's it goin' from the east side! Here we are in the very hippy, guitar-strumming, fire-twirling, joint-smoking (not us, of course!), surf-duding town of Byron Bay! We've covered quite a lot of ground since the last blog and have had a really good time exploring the quintissential Aussie east coast. It sounds as though you guys are enjoying a great summer over there (proof ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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