In the land down under! Sydney + day excursion to Blue Mountains National Park!
October 23rd 2006 G'd day from the land down under and New South Wales.
I expected Australia to be nice and warm after some cloudy days in New Zealand. Man I was wrong, it was even worse, 15 degrees and rain!! I must have been very unlucky though because it's not really the standard temperature in October, it's spring here now.
Sydney is nice though, as are the Australians. People are friendly and very easy-goi
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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 
