We choose some strange places to stop.

Homeward Bound

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July 18th 2021
None of this lying-in bed for hours on Sunday morning. We were on a mission … we weren’t quite sure if we would be staying the night in Crystal Brook or Balaklava. As it turned out it was neither. It was the last day of the school holidays so there was plenty of early activity in the park … and plenty of traffic on the roads both heading north and south. Just up the road we pulled ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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