Barry at bottom of Gloucester Tree

Turned the corner!

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November 23rd 2009
Perth Our last day in this lovely city. We got back on the bus down into town and walked down to the Jetty to see what trips were going - and booked ourselves on a lunch cruise up the Swan River to a Winery for wine tasting. This gave us 2 hours to spare so we took the free blue cat bus to the closest stop for King’s Park. The bus stopped right outside the hotel that Dave Taylor and I stayed in ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Albany

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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