Lookout point some of the girls at lookout point

Week 1 in Australia

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August 30th 2012
I stepped out of the Brisbane airport taking my first step on Australian soil. As I went to get on the bus the door seemed to be on the wrong side of the automobile. It was then I remembered how in Australia you drive on the other side of the street, a phenomenon I a never witnessed first hand before. On the drive to Moreton Bay I couldnt help but notice all the store along the way that we have ba ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Moreton 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