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January 26th 2010
DAY 445 Well today is Australia day, what is that we hear our British chums announce? Well its when Captain Arthur Phillips, landed with his first fleet in 1788 at Sydney Cove, the hoisting of the British flag there, and the proclamation of British sovereignity over the eastern seaboard of Australia and subsequent white settlement on this island continent. I think I read somewhere that is w ... 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

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Back in the November of 2008, we embarked on an adventure that would take us out of everything that we were so familiar with, a comfortable life in the UK, friends, family and the English countryside. Some call it brave, others thought that we would be back, but above all, most people helped us embrace the challenge that lay ahead of us. Weary of corporate life, we emigrated to Australia, with the notion of buying a 4 wheel drive and camper trailer and a 12 month trip to explore our adopted country, Not an easy thing to do as we had to start from scratch, simple things like knife, fork, s... full info

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