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Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road, Australia

11/30/2017

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​Melbourne is a large hipster city.  There are organic juices and smoothies everywhere, and everyone
eats fresh avocado smashed on sourdough bread (which is delicious by the way).  I LOVE IT.  If this isn’t your thing, there’s plenty else for you to eat, but I personally appreciated the easy access to healthy foods and vegan / vegetarian (and gluten free if you want that too).  It's also near beaches and a beautiful route to drive for a day or more, the Great Ocean Road.

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Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

11/25/2017

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​Cairns is a smaller city in Australia that a lot of people use as a base point for excursions to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).  There’s also a scenic railway to Kuranda – a village in the rainforest not too far from Cairns.  And if you still have time (and money), there are things like skydiving, bungee jumping, etc. that you can do as well.  In the actual town of Cairns, there’s a public swimming lagoon that you can use and great restaurants (and some gambling if you’re into that… gambling is EVERYWHERE in Australia though, so you don’t need to come here just for that). 

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Kurri Kurri & the Blue Mountains, Australia

11/16/2017

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​Our main reason for visiting Australia (other than that it’s been on my list for literally forever) was to celebrate our friends’ wedding.  Cam is from Kurri Kurri, Australia, and Amanda is from the USA.  They had their wedding in Georgia, but also traveled to Australia to celebrate with the Aussie side of the family.  Kurri Kurri is small but beautiful.  They are close to the beaches in Newcastle and the wineries in Hunter Valley, so there was a lot to keep us busy. ​

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Sydney, Australia

11/16/2017

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​Let’s start off with some information about Australia’s history first.  The typical Aussies that most people think about when they think about Australia weren’t the first people in this land.  As early as 65,000 years ago, there were human inhabitants on the land that is today called Australia.  These people are the indigenous Aboriginal Australians.  When the British arrived, they colonized the land much as they did from the Native Americans in what is now the United States.  Similar to what happened to the Native Americans, disease wiped out a large percentage of the Aboriginal population. ​

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