View from Southport looking at Surfers Paradise

Coffs Harbour to Rainbow Beach

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April 2nd 2014
I finished my last update by saying how much it had been raining and that my search for the Koala continues…. I am happy to say that I spotted one today! I continue…. I woke up at 2.30am at the Art Factory Nomads Hostel car park to the sound of rain and palm tree nuts falling onto the top of my camper. I had to put my ear plugs in. Rain was also leaking through the side of the sunroof and ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » 1770

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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