Kowala!

Kangaroo Island

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March 31st 2008
Date visited: 27-29th March Another last minute add-on to our 2 week lightening tour of South/South East Australia - why not when this wildlife island is only a 30 minute hop on the ferry, about 2 hours from Adelaide. We weren't to know but the main national park to the west of the island, home to some of the most spectacular walking tracks, was all closed off due to a natural fire cause ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria

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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