These pictures were sent by Chris and Charmaine Wan from NSW, Australia.  Thank you so much for helping me with my quest.

“These are pictures of the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, NSW in Australia.”

The Blue Mountains are located in the western part of Sydney, about 2 hours away from the centre of Sydney.  The place is called “Blue Mountains” because it is densely populated by oil bearing Eucalyptus trees. The atmosphere is filled with finely dispersed droplets of oil, which, in combination with dust particles and water vapour, scatter short-wave length rays of light which are predominantly blue in colour.

Echo Point

The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, ‘Meehni’, ‘Wimlah’ and Gunnedoo’ lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

An old mine in Katoomba (no longer used)

These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.  The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

View From Echo Point

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to  return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.

From Charmaine Wan in Sydney Australia, here’s two pics of the Sydney Opera House, one of the most well-known buildings in the world. It is listed on the World Heritage List.  The Opera House sits on Bennelong Point, in Sydney (my city) New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by a Danish architect Jorn Utzon.

Thank you .. Charmaine.. for sharing these beautiful pictures with us.