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Amsika. HubPages. Michaelmulcahy. The Blue Mountains of Australia. With my arms folded, putting my full weight on the balustrade, I sighed casting my eyes upon the spectacular view before me.

The Blue Mountains of Australia

On this clear sunny day a blue haze rippled over the mountain range and deep gorge, stretching as far as the eye could see. A faint whiff of eucalyptus was swept up by the gentle breeze. I thought, surely I am standing in the same vicinity as did Henry Lawson one of Australia’s most famous poets who in 1887 was inspired to pen his observations of this mountain range. In several verses of his poems he writes of the “Blue haze over the range”.