laura_seabrook | Bathurst Photos

This is the view from Jessica's front patio. You can see the Blue Mountains in the distance. The houses on this street were built as temporary dwellings back in WWII.

Bathurst Streets are like most country towns very wide. I think this dates from the times of Bullock teams.

There is a large RSL at Bathurst and they take their war memorials seriously. This one commemorates WWI.

This is one of the main streets of Bathurst and has a mixture of 19th and 20th century buildings. The brick building on the corner at left was is Knickerbockers Hotel and was only built in the 1990s.

This memorial commemorates the battle of Malaya in WWII (see detail). A couple of years ago some school kids defaced and vandalised it just before ANZAC day. They were caught, forced to remove the graffiti before the dawn service, and had their names published in the local papers. The note at the top may be from them too.

Um, why commemorate the laying of a stone when it's not part of the building?

Nice bit of Federation architecture in a back street.

Semi renovated housing. Note the beautiful colours but the rusty tin roof.

Roadside between Bathurst to Lithgow. The terrain up here reminded me of what I saw in upstate New York in 2006. I guess both are cold (Winter/Spring) and near the mountains.

The train at Lithgow Station. Most of the tracks in the Blue Mountains are hidden down cuttings, with stations and towns sitting above them. I kept on thinking of places like Switzerland. Lithgow looks interesting and I might have a better look at it one day.

Two views out the train window on the way to Mt. Druitt. The track seems to skirt the valleys rather than veer through them. The Blue Mountains attract me, though I'm not the only one.

A shed at Katoomba Station. The sign seems ambiguous to me - are they saying that any one trespassing will be prosecuted, or that there's no way they will?

Hotel at Katoomba. I like Katoomba. If I ever moved from Barnsley, it'd be on my list of places to go.

Just before sunset, from the train. There was a group of Japanese tourists next to me who tried to take shots of that sunset. I hope they got the shot they wanted.