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This was a pretty busy place the day I took this photo. Lots of people playing sports, a few people laying down having a rest from work. It was lunch time so there were quite a few people relaxing in the park.
This is the "Penrose Triangle" sculpture that sits in the middle of an traffic island in East Perth W...
The Claisebrook Cove in the East Perth precinct is a vibrant inner city area about a 15 minute walk f...
This ancient tree caught my eye. The tree has obviously been cut back alot which makes the intricate ...
This is the duxton hotel. It's apparently one of the most flashy hotels in our little city. The palm ...
This is a very surreal room in the church. The eerie book back lit and chained to the wall. The red a...
This is the main altar to the church. The marble sculptures on the wall were really eeire and surreal...
Although the other panoramas in this series feature quite more epic scenery. This was my favourite sh...
This view shows all 4 directions of the other panoramas I took that day. It is where ther priest woul...
This is just to the side of the main altar. All the messages on the walls were somewhat haunting and ...
This is where I started. Walking down the aisle The tiles on the floor were all cracked and worn and ...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.
