Dad's Uncle Trev & Auntie Jan

Gold Coast to Home

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September 5th 2009
We went past Dad’s Uncle & Auntie’s place and stayed there the night. In the afternoon, the next day we had a picnic by a river. My brother cracked my Dad’s whip and it echoed across the river. We drove in to Byron Bay to see the most easterly point of the Australian mainland. Then we rocked up late at a caravan park in Grafton. We just had chocky mud cake and milk for tea - sounds heal ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Mornington Peninsula

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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