Blue Mountains

From The Mountains to The Surf

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August 13th 2006
We again hired yet another car for the day and set off for the Blue Mountains. By any other standards it would have been a long way, however after Darwin to Kakadu it was a just round the corner. We had planned to go back to Mrs Macquaries Point and Bondi Beach; however we didn’t realise that it was the day of the City to Surf fun-run, which effectively ruled out both of those locations, at leas ... 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