Luna Park, St Kilda

Whistle stop tour of Melbourne

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January 11th 2011
After 3 months in Sydney, we left only 4 days to take in Victoria! Oh well, that's the way it happens with travelling sometimes. We arrive in Melbourne to our now traditional welcome of rainy weather! I guess we can think ourselves lucky looking at the current situation up in Queensland. It's genuinely scary looking at the flood water and thinking about what would've happened if we had been in ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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