Round The Twist lighthouse!

Victorian adventures

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March 20th 2008
I've spent the past couple of days on two excellent trips into the Victoria countryside. On Tuesday I spent a day on the Great Ocean Road, and on Wednesday I went wine tasting in the Yarra Valley - so plenty of photos of rocks and vinyards coming up! We had another lovely sunny day for the Great Ocean Road, but thankfully it was 15 degrees cooler than it had been previously, at a very pleasant ... 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