Chris and I at Woolami beach

Penguins in Australia??

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August 14th 2006
As I think I mentioned in my last blog, the plan for the next few weeks is to do a Melbourne tourist attraction each week. This week saw Chris and myself take a trip to Phillip Island a small island off the south coast of Victoria (Victoria is the state in-which Melbourne lies). Matt wasn’t really very interested in this particular adventure so and worked the previous night so we left him back a ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » Philip Island

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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