Namadgi NP - Moonlight Hollow Road |
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Moonlight Hollow Road, Namadgi National Park.
This trail goes through a forest of tall vertically growing gum trees, not too far away from Bulls Head.
Picnic area at Bulls Head, Namadgi National Park.Late afternoon sun shines through a line of big matu...
Bendora Dam, Namadgi National Park.Bendora Dam was the half-way point of a 30km loop walk I did start...
Camel’s Hump, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.I guess the most straightforward way to get to Camel’s Hump ...
Cascades Trail, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.One of the mountain stream cascades seen along the Cascade...
Mount Coree summit, on the border of Namadgi and Brindabella National Parks. This is the location of ...
Mount Coree summit, on the border of Namadgi and Brindabella National Parks. This spot, on the opposi...
Hanging Rock Aboriginal rock shelter at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. This large rock is easily accessi...
Grazing roos near Dalsetta car park in the late afternoon as the sun slowly starts to drop behind Tur...
Rock Valley Homestead - the restored ruins thereof. This is one of the remnants of early European set...
Murrays Hill in Pierces Creek State Forest. Elevation at this point: 686m according to GPS.This is a ...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.