G'Day Sports

It was another early start (6.30am) for our trip up into the Blue Mountains and it took us a couple of hours to get there. Our first stop was Euroka Clearing where the kangaroos run free and bounce around and the cockatoos fly around also the place where we enjoyed our billy tea, complete with Eucalyptus leaves!!!

From here we took in a stop that we probably should have missed out considering that it was blustery and this was the Kings Tableland (also known as the Aussie divorce) from this vantage point you look across the Blue Mountains but if you were to fall off you would be a 'gonner' due to the vertical drop off. By this time it was lunchtime and we had ours in Katoomba (the capital of the blue mountains) before heading to Echo Point, home of the 3 sisters rocks in the middle of the national park.

Then it was time for rides and our first was the Skyway cable car with the glass floor which gave you views 230m below. Once across this it was a trip on the steepest railway in the world it descends 230m at a 52 degree angle which was cool. Once descended we walked around in the rainforest for a while looking at termite nests and trying to spot a Lyre bird (they impersonate things with their 2 voiceboxes) but today we were out of luck.

Then our 3rd and final ride to get us out of the valley was a cable car back up the side of the cliff to see the naked ladies!!!! (bronze statues)

Then on to Leura for a visit to the lolly shop which stocks all sorts of sweets from Licquorice to BonBons and Pear Drops to Aniseed Balls which was ace.

We still had time to fit in 2 waterfalls one at Govetts Leap and Wentworth Falls was a bonus as we had a bit of spare time. Then it was a short 1 hour drive back to the Olympic village past the stadiums to get our cruise down the Parramatta river and back to Darling Harbour. It has been another packed day and throughly enjoyable yet again. I promise that we will slow down soon!!!!!!

See Ya

Lots of Love

M & M