Not so rooty hill

The western Sydney suburb of Rooty Hill does indeed have a hill called Rooty Hill. I climbed it for the first time today. It's only 74m above sea level though. Not a really challenging hill.

And it's  not very rooty. In fact if we had to name it today, we'd probably call it Bald Hill.

But it's got great views all around. Here's the view to the Blue Mountains, specifically to Mt Hay and Mt Banks, the most identifiable peaks from all over Sydney.

You can just see Rooty's other famous landmark: the Rooty RSL. Or at least, its 'Western Sydney Performing Arts Centre', a $100 million theatre built mostly with the profits from the RSL's poker machines. They say it's a community arts centre, but you'll have to walk through the club, and past all those gambling machines, to get into or out of it!