Emily diving for frogs

The Land of Poo

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January 3rd 2011
If you know the Nanny McPhee stories and films by Emma Thompson you’ll have seen two rather posh, well-dressed evacuees getting out of their chauffeur-driven limousine into a muck-filled farmyard and exclaim that they have landed in the land of poo … ‘Hello, poo-people’ is the greeting offered by the boy to the children of the farm … So it must have looked to the hardened Aussie campers ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay

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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