http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/ Hot Food, Spicy Stories Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.21 http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-23052 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:12:53 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-23052 I know next to nothing at all about Australian history Charlie – pretty much just that we shamefully used the continent as a dumping ground for all our murderers and rapists, but it’s fascinating to find out such things. I had no idea! I suppose going “around” the mountains instead of “over” wasn’t an option?! :p

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22995 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:14:50 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22995 Loved the history lesson. Really interesting. And glad that the weather was kind for the guys!

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22990 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:07:38 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22990 Fabulous read Charlie.
have a beautiful day.
🙂 Mandy xo

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22978 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:06:32 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22978 My how wonderful to have such famous ancestors. Must say they really did look the part.

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22974 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:04:36 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22974 This was so interesting and I love the outfits!!

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22973 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:45:46 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22973 I’m Aussie but didn’t know the importance of crossing of the blue mountains 🙂 Gosh Alfie is a brave boy i would be scared looking at the cow skull!

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22969 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:46:07 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22969 That cable car ride is still there, John. We keep meaning to take Alfie on it. Another reason to go back up the mountains.

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22968 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:45:19 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22968 And he had the road named after him too! That’s amazing. Cox and Blaxland would have known each other for sure.

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22967 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:40:51 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22967 Yes, the Aborigines sure could have been treated a lot better. But the lovely thing about this re-enactment was that an Aboriginal Elder from one of the tribes that lived in the Mountains came and walked with the party. He is quite elderly and he walked every day of the three-week re-enactment. It was wonderful to see him so involved and so good for reconciliation too.

]]> http://hotlyspiced.com/the-crossing-of-the-blue-mountains/#comment-22966 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:38:47 +0000 http://hotlyspiced.com/?p=8444#comment-22966 I know. They keep adding new stuff to the curriculum but at the expense of this generation learning anything about how our nation started.

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