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Manly beach

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February 14th 2015
We decided to go to Manly beach today. This is a very popular area and even more so this week as the Australian Open Surfing Championships were on. It was funny because we saw some of it on TV last night. Anyway, it was absolutely packed! There were thousands and thousands of people and we must have been the oldest by about 20 years!! However, we did feel we were being very "cool" mixing with lots ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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