Byron Bay

The last week before we're home

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September 15th 2010
I think the beaches from the Sunshine Coast in SE Queensland and down the NSW coast to Victoria are some of the best in Australia and Byron Bay is amongst them with it's long fine white sandy beach. Though we had a couple of cloudy days, our final day was sunny though a bit windy, nice to walk along the beach with the sun on us. We thought we must go up to the lighthouse before we left Byron B ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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