Turtle

Here comes the sun.

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January 13th 2007
We arrived in Brisbane and decided hiring a car would be our best form of transport as the country is so vast! (maybe a plane would be more apt). We spent two nights in Brisbane, not a great deal to see just another city, so we headed north to Hervey Bay. We took a drive out to Mon Repos beach and was lucky enough to witness a natural rarity of a marine turtle laying its eggs on the beach. This ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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