Word: eucalyptical
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...Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped Mount Tomah, the first peak Caley reached, eucalypt-green ridges roll away like swell on an uneasy sea. The leaves of huge gums shimmer in the wind. It looks just as impenetrable as Caley might have seen it, and just as forbidding. "It looks epic down there," someone mutters...
Glenn Shaw leans back against a huge fallen eucalypt, shaking his head. "I feel no need to go in," he says, black beanie pulled down low against the chill. "I'll just sit here and listen to the scrub." Wind roars in the canopy above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base...
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