Stringy Bark Trees

Lakes Entrance to Queenscliff

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February 9th 2007
After Lakes Entrance next stop was a town called Foster just outside of Wilsons Promontory Park on the southern tip of Victoria. On the way we made a detour up to Mt Hotham in the Snowy Mountains. If it's anything to go by Aussie ski hills are quite different to what I'm used to. Instead of skiing on what I would call mountains they ski off the edges of some really high plateaus. Steep though! ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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