At the first lookout point

Opera and Blue Mountains

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March 6th 2008
To make up for the lack of pictures yesterday I've got a quite startling number of views of mountains today! I think I got a little snap happy, but then you're allowed to when you have a 4 gig memory card. Anyway, yesterday I went to the opera which I really enjoyed. I'm afraid to say I'd never been to an opera before, and decided that as far as locations go you can't really beat walking up t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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