forest acre drive

Christmas to New years

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January 12th 2011
Christmas / New Year On Christmas Morning there is an extremely high tide. As we head for the beach, the Noosa River waters are lapping the roadside. For months we have promised ourselves– ‘we will swim in the Pacific on Christmas morn’ and miraculously, today the sun has risen out of a blue ocean! At the beach the surf is washing up against the edge of the dunes. There are several hundre ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cooroy

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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