Today is Australia Day!

Hi Bloggers

Today is Australia Day! That's right, I'm an Aussie gal. The 26th of January commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet, when Captain Cook discovered our land.  Summer out here has been terribly humid and today it will be 33 degrees in Sydney! That's what the prediction says. Through February the heat will keep on getting hotter and our air conditioning is constantly going. I think staying home with my family would have to be the best option.

A little history: Australia may well be the home of the worlds first people. Stone tools discovered in New South Wales, show that Aboriginals lived in Australia at least twelve thousand years before they appeared in Europe. It is supsected that there have been in excess of 18,500 generations of aboriginals!

Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House

Australian flag

Australian National Anthem

Australians all let us rejoice

For we are young and free

We've golden soil and wealth for toil,

Our home is girt by sea:

Our land abounds in nature's gifts

Of beauty rich and rare

In history's page let every stage

Advance Australia fair,

In joyful strains then let us sing

Advance Australia Fair.

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,

We'll toil with hearts and hands,

To make this Commonwealth of ours

Renowned of all the lands,

For those who've come across the seas

We've boundless plains to share,

With courage let us all combine

To advance Australia Fair.

In joyful strains then let us sing,

Advance Australia fair.