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March 31st 2014
The weather cooperated today and we spent a fair bit of time out of doors. This morning we walked to the State Library of New South Wales and enjoyed looking at their exhibit of paintings of flora and fauna of the Sydney area done by the original colonists - both convicts and freemen. (See photo) Then we walked across the road to the Royal Botanic Gardens with its lush growth of exotic trees and o ... 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