Surfers Paradise

Surfing in Paradise

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December 26th 2007
Day 268 (20/12/07) We left Brisbane with a new passenger to the van. Conrad from our Western Oz road trip was also in Brisbane and heading towrds Sydney and decided to make part of the journey with us. We now had approximately 3 days to travel just under 1000km but there were still a few places on our list of things to see so we had to leave fairly early to make a start. A short (by Aust ... 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