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Lord Rayleigh was the first person to explain why the sky is blue.  How blue exactly, are the Blue Mountains? It depends on where you are. In Glenbrook you might feel a bit jibbed, but at Echo Point and Govett's Leap Lookout, the mountains are certainly blue. The mountains and valleys are smothered in a blue haze that is produced by an effect called Rayleigh Scattering (yes, named after that guy I mentioned earlier). It's explanation of the blue haze is that the suns rays fall on dust...