The Blue Mountains

So on our final day in Sydney, Lee decided to torture us, as Jane was still feeling a little under the weather, so we headed on out to the Blue Mountains, and Katoomba.

The train took a little while to get there, but it was well worth it…

I’m rapidly running out of superlatives, huge amounts of sky, vast stretches of almost pristine forest stretched out on the valley floor – amazing!

So the guide book reckons that there is a 2 hour walk from Echo Point to the Leura Cascades, and that it’s an Easy to Medium 4.5 Km, should be a breeze.

The view was excellent, and then the path went down. Then up, then down, we kept surfacing at the cliff face to take more pictures…

and guided by our intrepid leader

we soon made our way around towards the falls, past flocks of cockatiels

Once done here, we headed back up, up, up the path once more, sweating in the heat and headed back to the extraction point, but took the opportunity to snap off a few more photos of the falls as we looked back…

This place was amazing, but seeing as we were rapidly melting, we opted to go back to the train and head back to Sydney to turn back into humans again.

Tomorrow we leave Lee, Jane and Sydney and head back to the South Island of N.Z. Wheeee!