Christmas sunset

Merry Christmas!

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December 25th 2009
It's Christmas day and it's hot! Well it's not so hot now as it's 9.30pm but we have spent the entire day outside on the beach. It has been wonderful but very strange. It is not Christmas like we know it and I am insanely jealous that at home there is snow! That said we did enjoy a feast of prawns, smoked salmon, garlic bread and herby potatoes which we ate in the sun while looking at the ocean so ... 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