Paula's chuffed with her new home

G'Day Mate - Arrival Down Under

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June 29th 2010
We landed in Australia not that sure what to expect. To be honest we’d done very little research on any of Oz let alone our first state of Western Australia, or first city, Perth. It was cold. Obviously it’s the middle of their winter, that much we did actually know, but it happened to be the coldest winter Perth has had in about 40 years and after over three months in Asia we really felt it ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Margaret River

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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