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Travel Blogs from Lithgow, Australia
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Blue Mountains
This is a top pick! ... father's side) lived in Lithgow and had offered to put us up for a few days whilst we visited them in this beautiful part of Australia. J&B looked after us and took us around all the sites in the area. We also got to see a couple of RSL clubs around ...
Lithgow in the Blue Mountains
Today was our longest drive to date of 540 km which saw our arrival West of Sydney at the base of the Blue Mountains. We stayed here for four days in a great campsite, again often on our own, but it was refreshing one night to meet a couple doing a very ...
Day.77 - Road Trip - Blue Mountains - Clarance Dam
Day.77 Up at 6, breakfast and off to pick Kimi up at 6.30. Urgh. Pretty tired but im sure itll be worth it. I managed to ignore the sat navs directions and get to Kimi's using my my directional instincts, which are usually zip!! I come ...
Day.48 - Glow Worms & Clarence Dam
Day.48 We woke to a foggy and wet morning, packed up and headed towards the tourist info to get some more ideas on where to go and what to do. Melanie & Arne had already recommended some places for me to go but we proceeded anyways. With ...
trains, cable cars and automobiles
... on a revolving floor! Once we'd had our fill we hit the road again and drove to Clarence Station, near the town of Lithgow, in order to ride the Zig Zag Railway. The railway was originally built in the 1860s and operated until 1910. In 1975 it ...
23 hours to go
well here it is 23 hrs to go before we embark on our journey and I still havent finished packing. probably taking way too much, I was hoping to get away with 6 bags but we have 8. Here we go ...
Lithgow
... days to see all the available systems and we had a good taster. Fascinating. We headed north and reached the small town of 'Lithgow'. Enquiring at the tourist information office we found out that there was a big motor cross event on in the area and all ...
Link to my first picture slideshow with music!
Featuring... Secret Sanctuary, dingos, wallaroos etc. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9114qrr6c For some reason I cannot ( at the moment ) directly upload the video to the blog, but the link should work well! :) Having an amazing time on ...
Welcome to Lithgow
... help as well as countless members and donors from all over the world trying to save and conserve the native species of Australia. This week so far we have planted over 3000 trees of 15 different varieties from Waddle plant to Eucalyptus to tee ...
Arrived in OZ
We didn't actually stay in Bathurst for race weekend but in a little town called Lithgow about 45 mins away where there wasn't a lot to ...
Good Onya Mate!
... we go to Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park to get a better understanding of the customs and history of the inhabitants of pre-colonial Australia. I am so excited! Sunday is snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef :) Monday we will be taking a mini scuba ...
Next Stop: Lithgow!
Just a note to let you know we are safely on the ground with all of our bags and nothing lost. It has been quite a day and we have yet to find our land legs but are excited as we continue on to our final destination! Our group of 5 has now grown to 14, ...
Feeling a bit Crook
... able to chat with both mom (thanks to your call) and Molly (thanks to facebook chat... a wonderful thing, really). In Australia, feeling "crook" alludes to illness which, thank you strange Aussie cold/flu hybrid, our whole camp now understands. Both Kyle ...
Blue Mountains
Sydney - Blue Mountains Es gibt wiedermal einen Zwischenstop in einer Visitor Info. Die haben immer Toiletten und viele Karten. Diese Info ist in Richmond, glaub ich :) Die Toiletten waren scheisse, aber die Tanten nett. Wollten uns gleich mit ...
LITHGOW
The Elusive Wombat
... 't know, many wombat holes are large enough for an average sized adult to fit in. In fact, a few months back when Australia was experiencing the dreadful fires a woman actually survived by throwing herself down a hole when she was surrounded in an attempt ...
A dark and scary day.
... his name; all I could get out were the words heater, motel, and about 6000 thanks. He dropped me at the Zig Zag motel in Lithgow, I had a warm shower (actually fell asleep in there) and a meal which I had to force down, I was not hungry all, warmth and ...
Abandoned Gold Towns
Another easy drive, again we avoided the highway and took the back road to Hill End an old gold mine town. Once produced most gold in NSW now it is a lot quieter the number of hotels has dwindled from 52 to 1, some of the claim holders literally took up ...
Slip, Slap, Slop
... on the plain, the once fertile bush land has lost a great deal of its biodiversity and without rehabilitation efforts, several of Australia's native endangered species will not be with us much longer. The tree planting is a way to stop erosion on the ...
On the edge of the Blue Mounatins & Wollemi NP's
... aversion to large cities, especially on a budget !! Now anyone who has been or is coming over will appreciate how expensive Australia has become with the poor exchange rate (apparently Sydney & Melbourne are among the most expensive cities in the ...
Zig Zag Railway
... Zag which is a series of switchback lines that run from Clarence on the Newnes Plateau down to the floor of the Lithgow Valley. On the way down, you will pass through a tunnel, where smoke billows in through the windows, then ...
The Lithgow Laundry
... motel proprietor didn't gag as I walked through the door) I found a quaint little laundry shop on the main street called Lithgow Laundry, run by a fantastic character, Suzanne a.k.a "the washing lady" She had just returned from Russia and Holland so I ...
New Friends found at Lake Lyell
... have high expectations of places and the town doesn't meet your expectations, it is hard to know what to think. The main street of Lithgow is old, turn of century style with some modern looking shops trying to do business, but it is as though there is a ...
Australian Ecosystems Foundations Inc
... Evans in 2002 with several other industry representatives who believed that not enough was done to conserve not only Australia's natural habitats but also the endangered flora and fauna species. Most conservation efforts were being directed towards the ...
The Loss of Friday
... as we still had to be pushed to a later flight. The biggest problem of this whole thing is that so far there are only 5 of us in the group traveling to Lithgow we have met up with! Allright, we are being called. We shall check back later! Love ...
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