Cottesloe Beach

Happy Perthday!

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November 4th 2010
After arriving at my hostel in the middle of the night, I head up to my dorm. It's pitch black and I can't see which bed is vacant but I've managed to wake someone up so I may as well ask. Ah it's the top bunk with the desk in front of the ladder. Oh good. I woke up to discover that I've been put in an all boy dorm. Oh dear. I spent the day wandering around Perth, visiting the WA museum (w ... 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