Sandra's last night

Atherton Table lands and Dust storm

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September 24th 2009
Hello from far away, I hope you are all well. As you have probably seen on the news, Australia has been hit by a dust storm that covered New South Wales in a blanket of Red dust yesterday, whilst up in Cairns we had clear blue skies. But when we woke up this morning it looked more like the dusk. The smog had lost its red colour but visibility was poor and the dust left me with a tickle in my th ... 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