Michael & Sylvia Goldhirsch of East St Kilda area

Day 28 Melbourne to Cairns (7 January)

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January 7th 2013
We spent the morning packing. We had wanted to go to Cook's house but guess what - we got up late 😞 We took the train to Balaclava in order to have lunch with Sylvia and Michael (our friends from the cruise). We went to lunch in the equivalent of Hendon at a dairy restaurant called Savion. It was very nice and we even got to bring bagels back with us for the flight. They brought us back t ... 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