Mountains through the clouds on the way from Christchurch to Melbourne

Melbourne mayhem and on to Sydney

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April 4th 2009
I've now moved on from New Zealand and back to Australia for a few days before my flight from Sydney to Santiago. In Melbourne, i met up with Nikki. She'd checked in to the same hostel as me, which resembled an old peoples home, so it didn't take long to find her. We spent a few hilarious days enjoying the bars and nightlife in Melbourne and toasting ourselves at the beach in St Kilda. We made ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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