An full Easter moon rises as the sun sets over one of the most significant archaeological sites in the world. The Walls of China is a lunette that sits on the eastern side of the ancient Lake Mungo stretching for more than 33 km. It is made up of three distinct layers; the reddish Gol Gol layer, formed between 100,000 and 120,000 years ago,while the archaeologically prolific middle greyish layer or Mungo layer, deposited between 50,000 and 25,000 years ago with the most recent Zanci layer, which is pale brown, being laid down mostly between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago. The scientific evidence shows that Aboriginal people have lived at Mungo for at least 45,000 years. This is the dated age of the oldest stone artifacts and human remains that have been found so far, and represents a lineage that extends back over some 2000 generations. Lake Mungo dried up almost 14,000 years ago and is located in the deep Outback of NSW, Australia
A sixteen shot panorama of the milky way over the Warrumbungles. The area has little light pollution to disturb astronomical viewing and is home to the Siding Spring observatory which is has more than a $100 million in scientific equipment including 44 telescopes. The largest is the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), a 3.9-metre equatorially mounted telescope, sits at an altitude of a little over 1,100 m and was ranked in 2009 as the fifth highest-impact of the world's optical telescopes. New South Wales, Australia
Tumbleweed takes over the abandoned Farmers Home Hotel in Matong. Built in 1916 on the site of an existing pub, the building serviced the local area with general goods, liquor and short term accommodation. In 2007 the hotel experienced an internal fire that destroyed the first floor area along with damage to areas on ground floor. The grass, known as hairy panic grass (panicum effusum), becomes a tumbleweed under extremely dry conditions, in an effort to disperse its seeds, and can become a nuisance in outback residential areas. Matong has a population of less than 200 people and is located in the Riverina region of south western NSW, Australia.
