St Kilda

Land of milk and honey

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February 14th 2007
From the moment I was picked up at the airport I could see this was going to be a different kind of trip. The daily trucking of backpack and sundry from one sock-whiffing backpacker dorm to the next, beans and toast and takeout chicken, the same 8 buck goon-bags being held to new sunburnt faces every day, were to be left aside in earnest while I checked in to the Delmont ***** (currently being pur ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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