Hooty, Opera House and Sydney Bridge

Sydney is Glorious

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April 29th 2010
I guess it's a good sign that we've been too busy to write? A lot seems to have happened in the past week. We spent several days traveling towards Wollongong, just south of Sydney. Barry chose a route-less-traveled, through Wagga Wagga, and it was awesome: vineyards, olive and citrus groves, hundreds of miles of yellow grain fields, thousands of sheep and cattle, and beautiful rolling hills. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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