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Whale and dolpin watching in Nelson Bay.
Old World War 2 gun emplacements on Tomaree Head.
The beautiful vista looking North East from Tomaree Head Summit.
The beautiful vista from the old radar post at the summit of Tomaree Head.
"Native" animals to Australia used to entertain tourists / holiday makers on this otherwise lovely lo...
A curious kangaroo at the lovely Oakvale Farm (my daughter absolutely loved it)! Check out also the k...
Half moon over the sand dunes on Treachery Beach, Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.This spot is...
At the very top of the breakwater at Nobby's Head.
Sunrise at Nobbys Beach, beneath Nobbys Head Lighthouse. Beyond Nobbys Head, the breakwall entrance t...
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.
