Bogged in Lightning Ridge 4. a typical home at Lightning Ridge - and I am not kidding!

Bogged in Lightning Ridge

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July 22nd 2011
We arrived today (yesterday now I am afraid!) in Byron Bay, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am to be here! Quite a bit has happened in the last week so I will start from the beginning…. We left Lightning Ridge about four days ago. Lightning Ridge (yes, that is its real name, apparently so named because a shepherd and his sheep were struck by lightning!) is a remarkable, and surprising, to ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Byron Bay

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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