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Rutilated Quartz
Tetragonal Rutile crystals can intrude in clear or cloudy quartz in shades of gold, rust and black. Rutile is titanium dioxide. I have seen it independent of quartz or apatite, but as tight bundles of needle like crystals. Qu...
Walking the Cliffs
Walking along the Pulpit Rock trail in the Blue Mountains near Katoomba, NSW We stood in places that terrified me But you need to understand that we were up HERE: Can you see the tiny stairway and platforms? I practiced my photography, trying to...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled travel blog...for more travel
Try to guess where we've been all weekend. Here are some clues: Adam's got a brand new Aussie Hat from the Night Markets across the street from the free public pool. He's trimmed his mustache to improve the suction of his face. And look a...
The Three Sisters
Meehni (922 metres tall), Wimlah (918 metres tall) and Gunnedoo (906 metres tall) The Three Sisters is a formation of weathered sandstone near Katoomba, Australia, about an hour west of Sydney. It's a location very sacred to the Aborigin...
Heading into the Blue Mountains
In Are We There Yet, the main character and her mother imagine the Three Sisters in their dresses, a particularly silly image-Rocks dressed to the nines.And the Eucalypt forest of the Blue Mountains gave them their name. The sap evaporating in...
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