Anvil Rock
par Klaus Mayer
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Anvil Rock lookout in the Blue Mountains
Taken at the Echo Point lookout close to the famous Three Sisters of the Blue Mountains in Australia....
We took the trail to the Three Sisters where you can stand right at the base of the first rock (close...
Hartley is an historic little village about 150 kms. west of Sydney, Australia. It was first settled ...
This is the site of the Olympics regatta held in Australia in 2000. This area was used for sand minin...
Beyond the reservoir wall, a bridge takes you across the river an back along the other side of the la...
The Jenolan Caves are remarkable caverns in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia; 175 kilom...
The humidity in the cave keeps the bacteria alive. There is some evidence that the craybacks at Jenol...
Outside the cave, the Devil's Coach House is a cavernous natural archway in the mountainside, named a...
Together with the adjoining Devil's Coach House, the Nettle Cave has been incorporated into a trail t...
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.
