Koalas

Happy Christmas!

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December 25th 2006
Happy Christmas everyone! I spent mine in Brisbane. We arrived in Brisbane a few days before Christmas. We went to a Koala sanctury as a girl we'd met in Byron Bay gave us some free tickets. The kangaroos where more interesting then the Koalas as they moved! We managed to get a Christmas lunch at our hostel, but it wasn't as good as my Mum's roasts! We spent Christmas day down by the Lag ... 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