The big prawn!

Byron Bay

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August 15th 2005
Awoke early and Lucy was like "have you SEEN the restaurant that we've stopped at?" I had still been comatose when we pulled up so i confessed that I hadn't ... She then made me close my eyes until she'd led me outside and made me open them to see "the big PRAWN" that sits on top of the roadhouse. (Australia has a fascination with BIG THINGS, there's a big banana, a big pineapple, a BIG COFFEE P ... 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