Caz on the Sand Blow

God Bless The Queen

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June 9th 2008
Congratulations Queenie! Apparently it was the Queens official birthday on 8th June 2008. How do i know this? Because the good old Australian Nation has a day off for the Queens Birthday so it was off to Rainbow Beach for the long weekend. We left Brisbane, along with everyone else, on Friday evening and had the usual snarl of traffic for the first 30km out of the City then nothing! Everybo ... 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