Golf Course after rain storm

Still Climbing the Coast

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May 14th 2010
Australia smells good. It really does. From the first day we landed I noticed a scent in the air. To me, it's a slightly perfumed sage scent. It could be partly because of the hundreds of varieties of eucalypus trees that grow everywhere. Their leaves have a strong scent, like menthol cough drops, and maybe the layers of shedded, dead leaves have a faded scent. I really like it, anyway. A ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Noosa Heads

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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