Red Panda

Farewell to Oz

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August 4th 2010
So here it is - my last day in Oz. I've had a pleasant three days in Brisbane. Yesterday, I spent out at the Australia Zoo, seventy km out of the city near the oddball Glasshouse mountains. This was Steve Irwin's famous Zoo. It's a great zoo, and, for me, it's the perfect way to say goodbye to Oz. I had a perfect day out there, the highlight of which was discovering that kangaroo and wallab ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane » Central Business District

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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