Our first guest in the Oz trip van

Australia, the first feww weeks.

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April 17th 2009
We could smell the smoke as soon as we started our descent into Melbourne from the fires that had occurred in Victoria recently. We took a cab out to Diamond Creek, north east of the city….. It was so dry and brown, not a green blade of grass anywhere. Martin and Jane had offered kindly put us up. This was a nice gesture as Martin is volunteer fireman and has been a bit busy lately. We got ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria

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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