Longreef Point

So long Sydney

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February 6th 2009
So I made it from the big city to Dee Why where Jane and Steve have kindly put me up in their spare room. It's lovely not to be in a hostel for a while and I'm only 10 minutes walk from the beach. So I've spent the month going back and forth to the beach, exploring on a bicycle and a little bit of touring on the back of Steves bike. I've also been surfing a couple of times, and I almost, very near ... 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