The Blue Mountains
I can't believe I've never been here before. I've been to Sydney so many times and never made the trip up here.It is truly awesome using that word for it's real meaning. Beautiful, lush, huge and belittling to us mere homo sapiens. It's been here for ever and will long outlast all of us.This month celebrates the 200th anniversary of the crossing of this long considered impenetrable mountain range that so threatened the penal colony's very survival. Had it not been for the heroics of sheep farmer Blaxton, Officer Lawson and a young William Wentworth we may all be speaking French or Portuguese as starvation was threatening the continuation of the garrison at Sydney Cove. When they arrived at what is now known as Mt. Blaxland and survey "30 years of grazing land beyond" Australia had really arrived. Little did they know that their three week trek would open the 'Australia Felix' revealing the staggering wealth on which to build a nation.
One Sister (the other two were busy!)
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| The Cascades |
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View from the Everglades Garden
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