A nice lunch stop

Travelling West and South

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May 5th 2011
We left home yesterday morning and drove over the Blue Mountains. It was lovely up there, the air clear and crisp, the day sunny, the trees in their autumn colours of russet and golds. We drove around Cliff Drive where there were wonderful views over the 'spectacular blue-hazed beauty, dramatic cliffs and deep canyons' of the mountains. We drove on to Bathurst and then through lovely co ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Junee

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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