Red Kangaroo

Melbourne Part 1

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July 10th 2008
Wow, so here I am again...everything's going so quickly!...... We've just spent a couple of days in Melbourne staying with Emily's cousin's wife, Kate. She is lovely and has been really looking after us! On Tuesday we decided (perhaps not very wisely considering the weather) to go to the Healseville animal sanctuary. It was raining almost all day and, as we found out afterwards, it was actu ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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