Front of Opera House

Manly

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July 16th 2009
Today I woke up in the morning to take a trip to Manly, a neighborhood far north of Coogee that requires us to take a ferry for 45 minutes. The first thing all of us wanted to do was eat, so we went to the first place we saw, “Gourmet Pizza.” It was here that I accomplished the first of many goals for Australia: to eat kangaroo. It was actually pretty delicious, but it did not come in the f ... 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