Another library picture. Was definitely not warm enough to wear trunks.

Whalesharks!

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July 17th 2010
I’m standing next to Paula and 8 others on the back board of a boat in the open sea. To the left is the Indian Ocean - nothing until you get to Madagascar. To the right I can just see the waves breaking over the Ningaloo Reef about a mile away, then after that the coast of Western Australia. We’re rolling and pitching with the waves, with a cold wind blasting the into us. I’m wearing two ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Ningaloo Reef

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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