Blue Mountains

October 9-10, 2012 Katoomba, Blue Mountain Region

Tuesday is day #42 of this adventure; we left the beautiful New South Wales coast and headed in-land to another national treasure. The Blue Mountains were our next destination. We bid good-bye to Jenny and Robert – this had been a wonderful time together; they are hoping to come and visit us in Oregon sometime in 2014, so we are already thinking about where we can take them? Coast, wineries, Crater Lake? The drive was another one of country, city, curvy, straight, rainy, sunny – a lot of things to enjoy, except the road construction – lots of it every few miles. Makes the trip a bit slower, but we made it into Katoomba by mid-afternoon.  The only caravan park there had no powered sites left, so we said we could “rough” it for one night. BRRRRRR it got pretty cold in the little Apollo.

Wednesday morning we caught the red double decker “hop on-hop-off” bus to see the sights. It dropped us off at an area called Scenic World where we caught the Cableway and slid across the beautiful Jameson Valley seeing the Katoomba Falls, Mt. Solitary, the Three Sisters and the blue of the Blue Mountains all were simply breath taking. Across the valley we then rode the Railway down a VERY STEEP route to a pathway where we walked to the valley floor through a beautiful rainforest.  Our trip up and out of this amazing area was by way of a Skyway Basket.  These 3 rides were amazing in of themselves, but the scenery that they took us into and through were some of the best we have seen on our trip.  Back on the bus we drove through the own of Leura and into Katoomba, we did a bit of window shopping and had lunch with a million dollar view at the 3 Sisters Café. This is another area definitely worth a more days time to view, but alas the clock is ticking and we must head off again tomorrow.