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Melbourne - Day 9

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March 23rd 2013
Got up at 07:30, blogged, had usual tea and raisen bread and got ready. Cool partly cloudy 19 degrees, but wind had dropped thankfully. Brian drove with me navigator down the eastern ocean drive that follows the coast of Port Phillip Bay. Modern glass fronted modern houses with fantastic sea views abound. Stopped briefly in Brighton to watch the vast shoals of small black fish and in Beaumaris ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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