Holding a koala

G'day from Surfer's Paradise

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January 20th 2007
That is right I am sitting here updating my blog in a place called Surfer's Paradise...not bad huh!?! I have been in Australia for 5 days now and am absolutly loving it! It is still quite scary to think that I will be gone for the next 5 months but for now things have been amazing. The flights over were not actually too bad excpet for the minor power outage in the Fijian Airport which was a bit sc ... read more

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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