The Wishing Tree

Oz Adventures, part five.

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January 17th 2009
From West to East Coast, Next Stop Brisbane. I started my week in Brisbane with a visit to Fraser Island. I was picked up from my hotel at 7am and boarded a four wheel drive bus bound for the coast a few hours north of Brisbane where the bus drove onto a small ferry to travel over to Fraser. We drove along the beach ... 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