Chinatown gates

Driving, Melbourne, and the New Year

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January 6th 2012
Hi Everyone! Welcome to 2012 and the start of the Australian travel adventure. I have left Leeton, the Fruitshack, and Mick's Bakehouse behind. To start off my trip my friend from England, Emma, and I have travelled down the Hume highway in her little 1987 Plymouth. We stopped in Albury for a few days and saw Hume Lake and the Murray River. Another fellow Fruitshacker, Andy, accompanied us ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » City Centre

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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