The quiet Bay

Patonga Beach Weekend

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August 15th 2009
Steve and I, and our friends Robert and Tracy, had the weekend off work so we hitched up the vans and took them down to a local van park at Patonga Beach. It is about a 40minute drive from our place. Patonga is a lovely quiet spot. The caravan park has a beach and a lagoon frontage. We enjoyed a quiet afternoon on Saturday, sitting on the beach and watching the boats and a seaplane. On Saturd ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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