our first meetng

The Start

---

May 14th 2007
It’s our first night together after 127 days apart. In early January, Helen went to Mt Isa in the outback of Queensland on a four month contract to work in the town hospital’s intensive care unit while I finished up a two year project with BECA for the Samoan Government helping villages prepare local coastal infrastructure management plans to improve their resilience to natural disasters like ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast » Surfers Paradise

---

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