Captain Cook

Never mind that the Aborigines were here thousands of years before him, but he wasn't even the first European explorer to land in Australia, nor the 2nd, 3rd etc. He was the first to Victoria however.

Summer, sport and good days

March 12th 2009
It has been a really long time since we updated (but think of it this way - hopefully we now have something interesting to say!). So we arrived in Melbourne in the middle of Spring Carnival and received a big welcome from the locals ( thanks Liz & Sylvie) when we went to the Melbourne cup races - Unfortunately Septimus did not even place in the races - alas maybe we Septim’s are all about ... 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

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