Blue Mountains

Blue Mountain Beauty

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July 11th 2011
This is a story about my trip to the Blue Mountains. I did this as a day trip from Sydney. I had a great time although hiking all over the mountains was exhausting. The train ride to Katoomba, the closest train station, took 2 hours and 10 minutes. The train ticket cast 10 dollars round trip and then I bought a hop-on-hop off bus pass. Normally I disdain those kind of tourist things, but I on ... 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