New Years Baby

PERTH... in a nutshell

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January 12th 2007
Wow! I can not believe how fast the time has gone since I last blogged. It has just completely flown by, and now it seems, like only a little while longer till I'll be back in freezing cold Canada. So much has happened in the last 3 months, it's crazy to think I'll have to sum it up in one entry. Well, I must say...Perth was by far my favorite city visited in all of Australia. If there was one pl ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth » Perth City

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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