Pacific ocean, cranulla beach

Wonderful Australia

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February 21st 2007
All Peaches and Cream!!! We arrived in Australia last sunday to see our friends Karl and Barbara Baron. We had a very warm welcome here. After washing all our clothes on the first night (to eliminate the possibility of any imported bed bugs) we got up dead early next morning and went with Karl into the city of Sydney to witness the Queen Mary 2 (one of the biggest cruise ships in the world) comin ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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