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Pacific Ocean-Australia-Fremantle The old part of town looked very historic. Here you see part of the main street and the beautiful colonial buildings from the early 1900s. |
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| Got the stamps for the Post office in Perth , but a different red cancellation . |
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Indian Ocean-Christmas Island-Settlement This is showing a view over the main Settlement which is the town were the original settlers started. Phosphate is still a big business here and you can see the same large cranes here that can be seen in Nauru. Maybe there is a connection there with both Nauru and Christmas Island having a Australian detention centre for immigrants. Was here during Chinese New Year and is a holiday on this Island due to the large Chinese population. |
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| Luckily the Post office was open Saturday morning while I was here. A busy post office. They hand out both Christmas Island stamps and Australian here. A full selection of Christmas Island stamps are available for purchase. The post office postmarks the mail when you hand it back. Two nice cancellations. |
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Indian Ocean-Christmas Island-Settlement I was not here during the high season for crabs when they migrate back to the sea. That is the rainy season from November/December. However there were still plenty of crabs about. Had to be careful when driving as I did not wish to go over them . A great red colour . By the way the crabs are not edible. Loved driving around the island . It has one of the best beaches in Australia- Dolly beach. No one there so one does not even need a bathing suit... |
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| Lots of nice Crab stamps here. Christmas Island every year issues a Chinese new year set of stamps. Now I can understand why with having a holiday for the Chinese near year. |
