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Sydney part 2: Out of the city and into the wild...

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July 22nd 2008
While Sydney is a great city we decided to escape the hustle and bustle of World Youth Day with a couple of trips that showed a very different side to the area. We had already found peace and quiet on the coastal walk from Bondi to Coogee and the Scenic walk round Manly and had even experienced a bit of wild-life in the form of some huge but apparently harmless spiders on Manly, but we wan ... 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