A Koala

Rocky Part I

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March 22nd 2006
I awake and immeditely clutch for support, looking at the floor literally feet below me. Im in the top bunk of a run down room in the Ascot Stonegrill Backpackers. I jump down from the bunk and check out the hostel. Since I arrived in the middle of the night I havent yet had a chance to see the facilities. I chat to the operator of the Hostel in the downstairs bar (this place is also a restaur ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Rockhampton

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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