savouring the sunset

Finally on the Road

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November 7th 2008
We drove into Goondiwindi at noon to 35 degrees. This town will be our last in Queensland for maybe a year; tomorrow we cross the Macintyre River which runs behind the single street of shops and into New South Wales. For the last six weeks we have been travelling down through NSW to pick up our home on wheels from Gosford, an hour north of Sydney, then back up to register it in Warwick which ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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