"What's That Skip? You Say Helen's Run Off With All The Food?"

The Calm Before The Storm (As Well As The Storm..) - Noosa, Brisbane, Surfers Paradise And Further South

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June 5th 2009
It’s a bit of a pain Helen finished the last blog on Fraser island. We did very little in the next place we went to, Noosa - one of the big surfing towns along the sunshine coast - and therefore it makes for a rather boring start to the blog. In an attempt to make it seem slightly more interesting I may have embellished the following facts, but I can assure you that almost everything here is 1 ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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