Melbourne Skyline at sunset

A bit about Melbourne & Adelaide (and a little more about me)

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January 29th 2007
The following may seem like quite a random collection of thoughts, and they mostly are, but it's all stuff I've been thinking about a lot over the last couple of weeks (and I've had a LOT of alone time to think) so I guess in that way it's all pretty relevant to my state of mind at the moment. It's introspective stuff, so apologies if you were hoping for a detailed entry about Melbourne and I hope ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide

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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