Near the Leura Cascades

On the rim of the gorge.

January 8th 2009
“Running, Sparkling Water”, Blue Mountains national Park Thursday 8th January 2009 Charles Darwin spent several weeks getting here by packhorse and claimed that the Blue Mountain scenery was “magnificent”; two hours by train from Sydney, it is still magnificent, with majestic gorges, tumbling waterfalls and its distinctive hazy blueness. The changeable climate has so far given us ... 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

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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