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October 11th 2006
Blog 2 Unreliable shorts and dodgy hats What a busy time we have had this passed week, after finding our way out of the mountains we headed north towards Bathurst, stopping on route at Young , this town used to be called lambing flat , in 1860 gold was discovered and by 1861 22,000 people , among them 2,000 Chinese , were digging away, the white miners resented the Chinese and drove them out, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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

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jo and dave short

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Life is not a rehersal you only get one shot do what you have to. We have waited 30 + years to have a gap year, they hadn't been invented when we were in our teens, so this is our gap year,we have visited australia twice, it is so big and there is so much to see, we were inspired by Bill Brysons book Down Under, I bought this book on our last trip down under .We were always a chapter behind , thus missing some of the wonderful things he had come across, but we did go to Cowra,and we went to the visitor centre and were as mesmerised as he was at the presentation of the cowra outbreak during the... full info

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