Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake

Tassie and an Australian Christmas and New Year

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January 1st 2007
Hi Hope everyone is well back home and 2007 is proving to be a good year so far! We've finally got round to putting our final 2006 entry online which covers Tasmania and Melbourne. Tasmania and The Overland Track We spent about 10 days in Tasmania with most of it doing The Overland Track. However, we did get to see a lot of the island on the bus taking us to the start and from the end of t ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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