Getting ready to go

Let's go surfin' now, Everybody's learning how...

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September 7th 2009
I am officially a true Australian tourist- we took surf lessons this last weekend on the local beach! It was a ton of fun! Luckily, one of our dear old Canadian friends is an avid surfer, and taught us all for free! The surf shop across from the beach rented us boards for $30 for 24 hours…cheap entertainment I’d say! We split two boards between about 6 people, which was more then enough becaus ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Alexander Headland

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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