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Finding Peace Away from the City at Cordeaux Dam
I’ve lived in Sydney my whole life, and I had no idea we had so many dams surrounding our amazing city, like the historic Cordeux Dam. Located around an hour and a half south of Sydney, somewhere in the middle of Campbeltown and Wollongong is one of Sydney’s most historical locations called Cordeaux Dam. It’s heritage listed and provides water to the Macarthur and Illawarra regions south. Construction of the dam began in 1918 and was completed in 1926 at a cost of 945K pounds, with walls consisting of large sandstone blocks, which were quarried onsite and cemented together and hold approx. 93,640 ML of water in the reservoir. It’s…
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Have You Ever Been To Mount Wilson?
Mount Wilson is one of those towns of the Blue Mountains, which often gets missed by many travellers exploring the spectacular sights of rural New South Wales. Located approximately two hours from Sydney, and around forty five minutes from Leura, Mount Wilson is an iconic part of the Blue Mountains, which transforms the native Aussie dry bushlands into a rainforest of ferns and in Spring boasts thousands and thousand of yellow daffodils, which pop up from the ground everywhere. It’s been several years (and then some) since I visited Mount Wilson, and not much has changed at all; with respect to the landscape that is. The flowers are in bloom,…
