Blue Mountains are beautiful

Yesterday we had a trip to Blue Mountains! The day before we planned to get to Kusum's place by 8 am so that we could make an early start. However when we got to the station we found that weekend there was track work and so no trains from Kings Cross!!!! So instead of doing a long winded trip by bus in the morning we just took a taxi.

Drove down to Parramatta and then on to the motorway. The climb starts almost as soon as we were out of Parramatta. The day was glorious sunshine but with a nip in the air. First stop was at Wentworth Falls. Coffee and hot choclate were consumed and went lookng for the lake there. There were some strange scupltures about and lots of ducks, geese and morehens. If course we missed the truning to the waterfall itself... what we had actually turned into the town to see!!

Next stop was Leura cascades... wandered down to the side and saw a small fall and apprently one had to walk another 20 mins to see the rest... The we went to Echo Point... now there is one place that takes your breath away! there is a blue haze to the mountians and hence the name. Saw Three sisters and other peaks, the mountains rolling away as far as the eye can see. Wind was chill even without any snow.

Then we stopped at Katoomba and had lunch! Small tourist town with plenty of people today as its good weather and school holidays. As you can guess there were plenty of Indians about too. The town is more or less a couple of streets and saw the YHA where that backpacker had stayed!! Next we moved on to the Scenic Point. This place has been truely commercialised with rides on skywalk (big trolley with see through floor), cable car, railway (actually a roller coaster) and some broad walks. The massively expensive souviner shop and resturant. We did the skywalk and saw the Katoomba waterfall, three sisters a little bit up closer and also various peaks. There were cockatoos, parrots and lorrikets and other birds we just heard.

Left the Blue Mountains to return to Sydney at sunset which was beautiful with pink skies. Got dropped off at Beverley hills to get into the city and take bus back. Memorable trip in many ways.