The shack

Christmas

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December 27th 2011
So the weather has been a bit unpredictable hee (as is typical of Melbourne!) mostly sunny with a few days of cloud and even a bit of rain! (Apparently there was even hailstone on Christmas day!) My lovely friend Sal was in Melbourne so I met up with her at St Kilda (the less posh backpacker area) and we went to the beach, shopped and ate! It was really nice to have some quality girly time after l ... 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