Opera House

Arrival in Sydney

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June 14th 2015
We arrived in Sydney a little after 10am on Sunday morning after about 19 hours of travel including a few hour lay-over in Auckland. John was reasonably excited that the three hour flight from Auckland to Sydney was on a 787 dreamliner, although it really didn’t turn out to be that different than any other airplane. Navigating customs and immigration was reasonably easy despite a few missteps ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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