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Puffing Billy Day

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November 6th 2017
Our last day in Dandenong and we are off for a trip on the Puffing Billy steam train. We thought being a Monday the train would be quite kid free, how wrong we were, we arrived on the platform to find hordes of kids sitting on the window rails of the train (picture to follow). The train took about an hour to get to Lakeside and it was freezing. On arrival at Lakeside went straight to the café for ... read more

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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