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Bushwalking... or more precisely: our first rainforest exploration

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November 26th 2007
This Sunday Ryjan and I joined the local bush-walker group of Toowoomba; we headed E-NE to the state forest and national park Mt. Glorious for finding some old plane wreck; the last 20 km up in the rainforest are very pleasant for bikers keen on driving serpentine; the view is fabulous up there! it was really rainforest-feeling (as it rained just the day before)... an impression I could not have ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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