Me in our cabin on Solway Lass!

.."I come from a land down under.."

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January 8th 2010
So 2010 is here already and I haven’t sent a blog on 6 months…oooops! So this is how Oz has been so far, since we arrived at the end of June 2009.. We arrived in Cairns at about 10pm, on the same weekend that a worldwide doctors conference was being held. Because of the thousands of doctors landing and the number of flights coming in, there was a massive queue outside this tiny airport for ta ... 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