Week 16-18- Moving on up- Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane and Noosa
April 29th 2013 Just over two weeks filling ourselves with the vibrant, breathable energy of both Melbourne and Sydney had left all five of us truly looking forward to the adventure that Australia would be sure to bring. Indeed, the three weeks that followed passed us by at an unnerving speed as we made the shorter, more frequent Greyhound journeys between Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane and Noosa, sampling
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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 
