Tom with explosives in his mouth

The big move and Blighty visit

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March 19th 2011
Well, it’s been a mental few months, full of highs, lows and planes. I know I am going to do my trip to the UK a dis-service by writing about it months after it happened but if you were there you already know how brilliant and if you were not you probably heard me go on about it. I left Townsville in a blaze of glory/ despair and made my flight by a cats whisker. I then had every day filled by f ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Townsville

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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