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Day 37

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January 5th 2016
Day 37 So today we got up at a reasonable hour on our free day in Melbourne and went to the eureka tower which is 88 storeys high with amazing 360' views of Melbourne really quite something! We saw everything, the shire of remembrance, the cricket ground, tennis ground, Olympic park, Albert Park, the docks, the botanic gardens, St. Paul's cathedral, the strange building with a face on it and th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » City Centre

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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