A sleepy local

The Great Ocean Road & Beyond

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January 17th 2009
With Christmas 2008 already a mere memory, Carissa and I took to the open road again en-route to our next destination: Adelaide. We actually managed a head start this time as my sister and her husband had done a lot of the hard work for us, leaving the van at Avalon airport having toured the NSW and VIC east coast. First stop was the Geelong botanical gardnens where we walked through a desert ... 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