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The Eastcoaster - Part 1 - New South Wales

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December 20th 2006
Flew from Alice Springs to Sydney on the 27th November and decided to stay in Kings Cross which had cheap accommodation at the expense of being a little seedy. Initially stayed in a hostel called "City Resort" which turned out to be a little too run down and very dirty. So after three nights there (we had to as a condition of our free transfer from the airport) we changed hostels and moved to "Ays ... 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