Koalas!

Brisbane

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March 11th 2011
We decided to drive ourselves into Brisbane for the day and do the hop on hop off bus tour. Driving into Brisbane was easy enough but without a map we had a "fun" adventure of figuring out where to go to park our car and get to an information center. After finally parking the car we popped into the info center in the main shopping street. We bought our tickets to the bus tour and made our way to t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Central Business District

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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