Sunset Over Byron Bay

The Big Banana, Byron Bay, the Gold Coast and Brisbane

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November 19th 2006
July 8 - 10, 2006 Sydney is a very big city of four million people. It features all of the traffic and dense urban culture of London or New York while also sprawling out along the serpentine harbor. Leaving Sydney and moving on to the north was an education in just how far the arms of this goliath reach and the traffic was particularly frustrating as our late start meant the sun was setting. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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