Fairy penguin on St Kilda pier

Down Under

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November 20th 2009
We arrived in Melbourne after a loooooo-ooooooong journey from Africa via Sydeny. Jet lag, coupled with 2 nights of no sleep = exhaustion. But, even on the day we arrived, we still managed to do a bit of sight seeing. We met up with Maddie, a girl I had met on erasmus in France, and she acted as our tour guide - round the city centre, Federation Square, the Botanical Gardens, and then into "Chi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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