Can I try one of your wontons? Its my birthday......

Entry 4 - Ballina

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May 10th 2011
On Thursday 28th of April we arrived at dad’s uncle John’s place at Medowie, just north of Newcastle. Some of Dad’s cousins and their kids came over for dinner. The next day John took us four wheel driving on the sand dunes at Stockton beach. We drove to ‘tin city’ (about five houses that people had built among the sand dunes). We then visited Kat, Jembe and India at Smiths Lake for a ni ... read more

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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