Summer Bay

Diving and Home and Away....

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March 25th 2009
Dear all, Its my last night in Sydney. Since I last wrote we have been diving at Shelley beach which was enjoyable but very cold! Over the past few months I have been enjoying diving in temperatures of about 28 - 30 deg C, which is often like diving in a warm bath. The water temperature here was 18 deg C...which was not as bad as the UK but it was still VERY cold! During our first dive we saw ... 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