Tibouchina, Wauchope

Back on the coast

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March 29th 2011
On leaving Tamworth, we decided we'd once more head for the coast and turned off the New England Highway onto the Oxley Highway and over the Great Dividing Range. There were many big hills to climb up and travel down. We discovered the Apsley Falls .. well, originally they were discovered by that intrepid explorer, John Oxley, but we hadn't known they existed till we followed a sign to them. The m ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Lake Macquarie

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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