40,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or something like that! Photo 13

40,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or something like that!

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January 10th 2010
Hola to all.... A little late with this blog, but I wanted to make sure to share our experience on the live aboard scuba diving boat trip we took to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia about 6 weeks ago. In a word...amazing...and awesome...two words...sorry! The boat is called the Spirit of Freedom and it was very accommodating. We arrived at the boat on day one, and met the ten crewmemb ... 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