Me and an aboriginal lady!

Blue Mountains and Australia day 2007!

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January 24th 2007
The Blue Mountains are a range of mountains just 2hrs outside of Sydney and can be one of the most beautiful sites in Australia. Sadly after being really careful and checking the weather daily, we managed to pick the one full day of rain since I've been travelling. Being mountains, we were therefore right up on the clouds and visibility was probably 100 metres. A real shame as I was really looking ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Blue Mountains

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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