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Mount Kosciuszko is a mountain located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park. With a height of 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Australia and the fifth highest of all Australian mountains. It was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow.

This was taken Just before the Lookout point 2kms from the top of the chair lift.

The Big Gold Panner can be found in front of the motel of the same name, rather hopefully inspecting his tin pan for nuggets of gold. You can find it on the Great Western Highway in Bathurst. A big man for a big job.

Lake Lyell provides cooling water for both Wallerawang and Mt Piper Power Stations. The Lake is connected to Wallerawang Lake by pipeline and hence to Wallerawang and Mt Piper Stations. Water for cooling is pumped from Lake Lyell Dam on the Cox's River, about 20 kilometres from the power station to the Thompsons Creek Dam, close to Mt Piper, which provides an additional 27,000 mega litres of cooling water.

First sunset of 2012.

Sydney Harbour Bridge on NYD with the Colourwheel lit up.