Fingal Head, Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia

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Fingal Head was first sighted by James Cook about 17:15 EST 15–16 May 1770 (log date). The area and small town is often just called Fingal. It is located on the Far North Coast of New South Wales in Tweed Shire, about 5 km south of the New South Wales and Queensland border, and south of the Gold Coast. At the 2006 census, Fingal Head had a population of 575 people.
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Soldiers Beach, Central Coast, NSW Australia

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Soldiers Beach, located at picturesque Norah Head, is one of the few Central Coast beaches totally untouched by urban development. Neither homes, not shopping centres will interrupt your experience of this fabulous stretch of coastline. On a clear day, from the highest point of the beach, at the northern tip, visitors will drink in an amazing view of the NSW coast in both the northern and southern directions.

The beach is flanked on the northern side by Norah Head Lighthouse. Built in 1903 the Lighthouse is no longer manned, but still operates automatically guiding ships travelling along the coast. To the south, Soldiers Beach borders the southern end of Wyrrabalong National Park where bushwalkers can enjoy a number of different scenic coastal walks.

Soldiers Beach is a surfers' dream and a swimmers delight. Its' south-easterly aspect ebcourages wave sizes in excess of 1.5m. There is plenty of car parking close to the beach and picnic tables and a small kiosk make it conductive to family picnics.

Self-contained accommodation can be found nearby at one of the Council's tourist parks. Other accommodation options, including motels and resorts, can be found at nearby Toukley, Budgewoi or The Entrance.
source: http://www.check-in.com.au/Central_Coast/Soldiers_Beach.htm

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Auckland New Zealand

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The Auckland metropolitan area (commonly pronounced /ˈɔːk.lənd/), in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, 31 percent of the country's population.
Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest of the country. Increasingly cosmopolitan, Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world, and has seen many people of Asian ethnicity move there in the last two decades. In Māori Auckland's name is Tāmaki-makau-rau, or the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.
The 2009 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Auckland 4th place in the world on its list, while The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities index of 2010 ranked Auckland in 10th place. In 2008, Auckland was classified as an Alpha-City in the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University, the only one in the country.
Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two separate major bodies of water.

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Australia's most bizzare map!! ... ενας παραξενος χαρτης της Αυστραλίας

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Swimming face-to-face with a massive saltwater crocodile … κολυμπώντας με θαλάσσιους κροκόδειλους.

Swimming face-to-face with a massive saltwater crocodile might not be everyone's idea of fun but thrill-seekers are snapping up northern Australia's new tourist attraction.

Tourists who want to get cozy with a crocodile climb into a clear acrylic cage, dubbed "the cage of death," which is about 145 mm thick and 2.8 metres high, wearing just a pair of swimming goggles and a swimsuit.
The cage has no bars, unlike cages used in shark dives, which prevents the reptiles from gripping on but deep teeth scratches are visible on the sides, deterring some hesitant participants.
The attraction, located at in the heart of the northern city of Darwin in the Northern Territory, was given high marks by adrenaline-junkies.

Crocosaurus Cove,
Corner of Mitchell & Peel Streets,
Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8981 7522
Facsimile: +61 8 8941 5522
Email : info@croccove.com
http://www.crocosauruscove.com/

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Συγκίνηση αναζητούν οι Αυστραλοί… κολυμπώντας με θαλάσσιους κροκόδειλους,

Η καινούργια τρελά των Αυστραλών κυνηγών αδρεναλίνης, το κολύμπι πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο με θαλάσσιους κροκόδειλους, αρχίζει να παίρνει διαστάσεις υστερίας.
Όσοι θέλουν να έρθουν κοντά με τα "γλυκά" αυτά πλάσματα, δεν έχουν παρά να επισκεφτούν το Crocosaurus Cove στο Darwin των Βορείων περιοχών, της Αυστραλίας.
Στο ειδικά διαμορφωμένο κλουβί από διάφανο ακρυλικό, σε περιμένει μια ακόμη εμπειρία υπέρτατου κινδύνου βουτάς για 20’ σε απόλυτη επαφή με το πιο αρχαίο αρπακτικό τον φοβερό θαλάσσιο κροκόδειλο.

Crocosaurus Cove,
Corner of Mitchell & Peel Streets,
Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia
Telephone: +61 8 8981 7522
Facsimile: +61 8 8941 5522
Email : info@croccove.com
http://www.crocosauruscove.com/

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu
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