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08-JUN-2009

The Three Sisters

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.

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.

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.

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princess19-Aug-2010 22:30
Beautiful landscape. Lovely story. BV
Lieve Snellings22-Jul-2010 00:21
waw what a story, what a view, what an image... V
Colin Clarke31-May-2010 14:01
True story. Nice image of this icon in the 'Blue Mountains'. *V*
PS. And you can see that vaporised Eucalyptus oil rises above the bush
to create the characteristic distant blue haze of the Australian landscape.
Guest 22-Mar-2010 16:37
Wonderful image ........I love the composition and lighting...BV
12311-Jul-2009 21:41
Majestic. V
FrankB16-Jun-2009 23:59
monumental....V