99km from Sydney is the popular town of Leura in the Blue Mountains is the perfect spot for a weekend getaway. If you’re trying to find a lovely town surrounded by even lovelier scenery, then Leura is where you want to go. The beauty of the town has led to it occasionally being referred to as… Read More »
If you have never seen a clear, starry sky from a place devoid of light pollution then you don’t know what you’re missing. With the naked eye alone from a dark location, you’ll see thousands of stars, meteors, the zodiacal light, airglow, satellites, the milky way, nebulas, and occasionally auroras and comets. Light pollution is… Read More »
The Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia covers the area between the Nepean River and Mount Victoria is sandwiched over 200 years of European history and thousands of years of Aboriginal heritage, some 2700 names have been applied to the places in between. This book is about those names, the men and women who named them, why… Read More »
The superb lyrebird has a spectacular tail of fanned feathers, when spread out in display, looks like a lyre, which is a musical instrument of ancient Greece. The male superb lyrebird is 80-100 cm long, including his 55-cm-long tail. He is dark brown on the upper part of his body and lighter brown below, with… Read More »
This property has also been known as: Weemala; Numantia; Metchley; Weston; Alphington There is NO PUBLIC ACCESS to this property. The following is information from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage:- ‘Eurama’ has qualities which mark it out as something quite exceptional among all the country retreats. Whereas each of the others represents the individual… Read More »
Updated 18th May 2021 UNSAFE – DO NOT TRESPASS – The caretaker will call the police. Asbestos everywhere. This is the original site of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium and Hospital and is 372.00ha (919.23 acres). Here: https://w3w.co/curbed.villagers.saturate The original house on the property was built for Kelso King (1853-1943), knighted in 1929, a prominent… Read More »
Eringarth is a historic house located at 1-10 Railway Parade, Springwood, 2777. The estate is an outstanding example of a wealthy Sydney businessman’s country retreat and philanthropic bequest to the Catholic church. Eringarth is a rare example of a Victorian Tudor style house in the Blue Mountains. The house has fine proportions and a distinctive… Read More »
The school was founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1901 in Main Street Katoomba. In 1910 Mt St Marys moved to a much larger and purpose built building at the Eastern Gateway to Katoomba.From 1910 until 1966 Mt St Mary’s was a strictly all girl boarding and day school. VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/AskRozBlueMountains/posts/2292496750793732 The front entrance… Read More »
Once abandoned and now a natural wonder, Glow Worm Tunnel is home to millions of little critters that simulate the night sky. The Glowworm Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel between Lithgow, New South Wales and Newnes, New South Wales, Australia. It is notable for its resident glow-worms, the bioluminescent larvae of Arachnocampa richardsae, a… Read More »
It’s said there are nearly 100 kms of tunnels in the cliffs near The 3 Sisters, Katoomba. Coal mining began in that area in 1878 and there were about 40 mines at various times. The tunnel is ABANDONED, CLOSED & EXTREMELY DANGEROUS The mining history in the Jamison Valley, Katoomba around the Scenic Railway and Narrow… Read More »