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We headed out into the Blue Mountains for a gentle day walk in April 2005 – from Narrowneck peninsula near Katoomba out to the Ruined Castle and Mt Solitary. You can see them above – Mt Solitary is the big broad lump right in the middle – the Ruined Castle is the small lump about 3\/4 of the way over (above the “S”), and Narrowneck is the bit on the right. This was the first introduction for our new Austrian postdoc Roland to the Australian bush – i think he was expecting more platypus…<\/p>\n

Although overcast, it was a nice day for it and a pleasant time was had by all. Highlights would be the great rock formations at the Ruined Castle, an awesome lunch spot at the far end of Mt Solitary, and the *enormous* leech that Jacqui plucked off Joel’s back before it sunk its sucker into his neck…<\/p>\n

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We headed out into the Blue Mountains for a gentle day walk in April 2005 – from Narrowneck peninsula near Katoomba out to the Ruined Castle and Mt Solitary. You can see them above – Mt Solitary is the big broad lump right in the middle – the Ruined Castle is the small lump about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMGP1271.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6696,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackaymatthewslab.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}