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Blue Mountains

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July 10th 2008
I spent the last 3 days in the Blue Mountains National Park, but not before swimming in the sea for the first time in Australia! It was pretty cold but it was nothing for an English person who has swum in the Lake District! By the next morning (very early) I had warmed up and was ready to go up to the mountains and freeze again (I had no idea it could get so cold in this country!). I went with a ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more