View over Newcastle

Into Sydney

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January 3rd 2015
Geo: -33.8649, 151.207We slept well and were back on the road before 9am, stopping for a "Scottish drivethru" breakfast at Swansea, on the peninsula at Lake Macquarie. We drove out to the Lakes Entrance at Swansea Heads, surprised at how little was there - some houses, varying from 1950s fibro to nice 2010s beach houses - but no shops and nowhere to stop for breakfast (hence the Maccas ... 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