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GOVETT’S LEAP GHOSTS; DARWIN & CHILDE

On August 18, 2022   /   Blog   /   5 Comments
Tags: Blackheath, Blue Mountains, Bridal Veil Falls, Charles Darwin, Govett's Leap, Vere Gordon Childe
GOVETT'S LEAP GHOSTS; DARWIN & CHILDE

Whenever I stand at Blackheath’s Govett’s Leap lookout I sense the spirit of Charles Darwin, one of my great heroes. Darwin said of the Leap; ‘It is a tremendous rent or depression in the earth, which is said to be the deepest chasm with perpendicular cliffs in

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