Camp Stockton Beach

Newcastle - its not that grim up north

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March 27th 2010
Headed North from Bondi and after a couple of hundred Kms the tank seemed to be letting us down already. He spluttered and coughed and jerked us around but maybe he just doesnt like the highways. We headed for a place called Newcastle which is apperently the 7th largest city in Australia but which is about as big as a very small town in the UK. Necastle does not however live up to its namesake in ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle

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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