Christmas Eve Evening

Christmas Eve

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December 24th 2012
Prawns are the traditional food for an Australian Christmas lunch. So at 5.30am Rowena, Matt, Dell and I exited the house and head to the fish market to secure tomorrows lunch. The market is only round the corner, but when we arrived there was already a queue out the door and we were number 50 in the queue. An hour later and 4kg of prawns later we emerged. By this time there were now two queues ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Maryborough

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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