Where's the sunshine?

A weekend in Jervis Bay

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June 11th 2006
It's a holiday weekend in Australia to celebrate the Queen's birthday (should we not get a holiday in the UK for this reason??) so we took off on our first Australian 'road trip'. We drove from Canberra out towards the edge of the Snowy Mountains (which are not yet snowy), through Cooma and then down towards the far south coast of NSW. We stayed a night at a nice little motel in Eden, and then dro ... read more

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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