M on Manly Beach

Manly, New South Wales, Australia

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February 23rd 2008
On awaking in the hostel in Katoomba we sought advice from the Tourist Office as to what we could do in the mountains today and were advised we had more or less done it all. So after breakfast we caught a train back to Sydney Central and using our day ticket (kindly sold to us in Katoomba) we took the train to Circular Quay where, as expected, we saw Cunard's Queen Victoria Cruise Ship on its maid ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Manly

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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