Alex McKinnon

An unexpectedly wonderful detour

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January 10th 2011
We are packing our caravan to head off to Coorow, and finally say good bye to Geraldton, where we have spent the past week, and what a wonderful, wonderful week it was. I have long been drawn to Geraldton after studying Randolph Stow’s Merry-Go-Round In The Sea as a school set work, but travelling north was never on our holiday agenda (as a family we generally went down south to the wine region, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Geraldton

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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