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Brisbane & Gold Coast 18-23rd March

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March 20th 2009
18th March - flight from Sydney to Brisbane. Met at airport by Murray Moor (at St John's School with me - contact revived thru Friends Reunited). Unfortunately his wife Angela was suffering from bad cold so he had very kindly booked us into a hotel for two nights. Drove us around the Brisbane area in the afternoon and out to the Mt Cootha viewpoint and then on to the Lonely Pine Koala Santuary ... 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