Old Windmill and Observatory

The Farther North You Go, The Warmer It Gets

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October 9th 2008
By some miraculous twist of fate, I was assigned two seats to myself for the overnight bus from Sydney to Brisbane (roughly 16 hours north of Sydney). That made the long night a little easier. I realized also that I had been lucky because speaking to an English guy while waiting for the bus he told me that he had also missed the morning bus but they made him buy a whole new ticket. I only had t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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