Lighthouse at South Head looking at North Head

Random wanderings on the East Coast

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December 5th 2013
So this blog covers a bunch of random things Shelagh and I have been up to since our Darwin Blog. We plan to do a fair bit of diving while we are here so we signed up to do our Advanced Course. The course was held in Manly. It didn’t get off to a great start. We were told to arrive at 8 am. Some others were told 8:30. It was 10 am before we did anything other than fill out a form. 10:30 be ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » CBD

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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