The Blue Mountains

Illustration by me :) 

"[Ranger no.2] passed the time just watching trees and brush go past on the Jeep's right side. Growing bored of this, he eventually turned to the windshield to survey the horizon. It was no longer flat. There were hills now, and curves in the road. But these did nothing to obscure his view of something in the far, far distance. He squinted his eyes to make out the forms of monolithic mounds which were beginning to appear against the sky. They were painted with an entrancing haze of blue which made them difficult to clearly perceive.


'That’s them mate.' Said ranger no.1 in a quiet voice. 'They're something else, aren’t they?'


And ranger no.2 knew at once that he beheld the Australian Blue Mountains."


  -Excerpt from Tazonea