Day 72 - Bush Walking in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
January 28th 2014 Wednesday 29th January 2014. Bush Walking in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
We were woken by the most amazing screeching and chirping coming from outside. This was the sounds of the local wildlife which include cockatoos, cicadas (tree crickets) and kookaburras (tree kingfishers). The latter make such a racket that their call was often used as the background in the Tarzan TV se
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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 
