The three sisters
By Pitstop
@pitstop (15042)
Australia
April 21, 2025 4:32pm CST
In our visit to the Blue Mountains we saw this sandstone formation called "Three Sisters". You can see the three projections that depict this. Australia has a rich cultural heritage from the Aboriginals and there is a spiritual story to this.
The Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains are named after an Aboriginal story from the Gundungurra people. According to this story, the rock formations represent three sisters—Meehni, Wimlah, and Gunnedoo—who were turned to stone by a witch doctor to protect them during a tribal battle. Unfortunately, the doctor was killed before he could reverse the spell, leaving the sisters frozen in time in stone forever.
Have you seen any formations or natural resources that have a story behind them?
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@RasmaSandra (84398)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Apr
I have written about these when I wrote about Australia and what you could see there, Never got to go myself but my late husband once went to Sydney.
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@RasmaSandra (84398)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Apr
@pitstop I have never been to Australia just written about places to see there, It was my late husband who got to go to Sydney, I am in Florida, US,
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@ptrikha_2 (47783)
• India
22 Apr
I do know of some natural formations and features with stories.
We recently went to one of them.
I also remember Manikaran - a natural Hot spring near Kullu in Himachal Pradesh where the caretakers show a vessel with rice getting cooked naturally from the steam of the Hot water that comes naturally.
It has linkages to Guru Nanak Dev Ji - The Holy Guru of Sikhs.
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@ptrikha_2 (47783)
• India
26 Apr
@pitstop
Just out of curiosity, have you ever visited Uttarakhand or Himachal?
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@ptrikha_2 (47783)
• India
27 Apr
@pitstop
Oh so you also have quite a lot to explore in India.
Even I have been to selected places - Himachal, Uttarakhand, Chennai (Official two month stay), Bangalore(now Bengaluru), Shirdi, Ujjain(MP) and a few places in Punjab and Haryana.
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@allknowing (144753)
• India
22 Apr
You also have the 12 Apolstiles which I missed to visit as I was very tired after the visit to the Philip Island watching penguins
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@pitstop (15042)
• Australia
22 Apr
@allknowing quite a few are not visible anymore. There are about 7 left now.
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@Deepizzaguy (109117)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
21 Apr
I have yet to see any formations of mountains that have a story behind them other than a letter that was on a hill in Balboa Panama which was the first letter in the word Balboa who was named after explorer Vasco Nunez De Balboa.
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@Deepizzaguy (109117)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
22 Apr
@pitstop Balboa is located in Panama.
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@Ineeddentures (646)
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23 Apr
In Scotland,
They have The Three Sisters in Glencoe.
I have seen them and they are quite spectacular.
I have no idea why they were named this, but I shall find out.
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@Ineeddentures (646)
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23 Apr
@pitstop
Yes indeed.
I must find out who named them, and when
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@GardenGerty (163232)
• United States
22 Apr
I am not sure that I have. We do have an hour or so from here Mushroom Rock State Park as well as Horse Thief Canyon. I do not know the story about the Horse Thief Canyon. The Mushroom Rock does look very much like a mushroom.
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@sathviksouvik (20460)
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26 Apr
the photo of the hills are awesome lovely photography
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