An Australian windmill - enroute Albany to Perth

Perth, Margaret River & Albany

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March 23rd 2008
Our time is almost up, so for our last 'big trip' in Australia we made it over to the West Coast for a last few days of sun, sand and sea before the Australian winter sets in - the frosty mornings have already started in Canberra! We flew to Perth and explored the Margaret River region in the south-west corner of Australia - very pretty in an undramatic kind of way, with beautiful beaches, big su ... 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