Buchan Caves

Our First Week

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November 30th 2006
We left for our 6 month holiday on November 26, 2006. We left Calgary airport at 8 am, landed in Los Angeles, had an 11 hr stopover and then continued onto Melbourne. We arrived in Melbourne after approximately 40 hrs of travel time. From Melbourne Dave and I plus his family travelled to Stratford, which is about 3 hrs east of Melbourne. The state of Victoria is currently experiencing the worst d ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Gippsland

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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