Australia Day Pool!

In and around Brisbane!

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February 6th 2007
Our arrival was pretty uneventful - thanfully - no scary crashes in the taxi this time! And we opted (naturally) for the cheapest hostel we could find employing as many of the discount cards we had been accumulating (and lugging around) for quite some time! Opting for accommodation in Prince COnsort Backpackers, in fortitude Valley - again a bit of a red light district! Ooooops! But a pretty cool ... 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