Captain Cook Lookout - Nambucca Heads

New South Wales

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February 16th 2010
After exploring Sydney, it was time to explore more of Australia. I rented a car for a month and would drive it from Sydney, all the way North along the East Coast to Cairns, about 2500km. Sydney lies in the state of New South Wales, and was Hunter Valley, which is known as Australia's premier wine region. I checked into a hostel in Cessnock, where a lot of young "gap year" kids (19/20 year old ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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