Sand Surfing

The Aussie Sahara

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August 1st 2010
Sunday was spent in the desert, well not quite but we did go to the sand dunes in Stockton where one of the Mad Max movies was filmed. The reason for our visit there was to go sand boarding down the dunes which we all found very exciting and lots of fun. The hardest thing about it all was climbing back up the dunes to the top to do it all again. From Stockton we went to Nelson Bay where we had lu ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Port Stephens

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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