Australia Day

Perth to Adelaide

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January 31st 2010
After a brilliant trip up the West Coast the plan was to stay in Perth to relax. The best thing about our timing was that our arrival was on Australia Day (a celebration of the day the English arrived in Australia) and Perth was touting the evening's fireworks as the best in the whole of Australia. They started at 8pm, no problem we thought as we landed at 3:30pm. I wanted to get a new camera and ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Nullarbor Plain

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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