Fancy Dress Tall Ship

Australia Day

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January 26th 2013
Up and out for 7.20am, the streets are busy with organisers and people setting up for the day’s celebrations. It is going to be another scorching day, and I enjoy wandering down to the swim registration area through the botanical gardens – they make such a peaceful and pretty escape from the city centre hubbub. The area they are using, the edge of the botanical gardens right next to the opera ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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