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Sydney, last day in Australia

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February 9th 2017
Today we had a free day in Sydney. I spent the day taking a wonderful walking tour with a nice couple from New York. We started in a beautiful park seeing some of the unusual plants found here in Australia. We then visited St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, begun in 1821 and the largest church in the Southern Hemisphere. We entered to wonderful sounds of a girls choir and string group as th ... 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