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visiting Fitzroy Falls

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August 22nd 2008
Although it was bloody rainy today Josh and me went to Fitzroy Falls in the Blue Mountains, nearly 50 km far away from Wollongong. When we came to one of the lookouts for the first time we actually didn't see anything bacause the clouds were hanging so low that you thought you were dead and facing the cliché of heaven's entrance - there was literally nothing to see but a shiny, milky wall. After ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Bundanoon

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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