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Travel Blogs from Blackheath
The Blue Mountains
... car, both sleeping and waking episodically throughout the long night.
Despite the forecast for a 90% chance of rain overnight, the sun came up and the ground was dry. We took a short walk down to Perry's Lookdown and observed the mountains and valleys in the wrong angle of light. Around the corner were Anvil Rock and Wind Eroded Cave, the latter a sandstone cliff-side carved by nature into a glorious fiery sculpture of enormous ...
Are the blue mountains really blue ?!
... 1504;תנו לנו חיבוק גדול כשרק הגענו, כאילו עשינו להם את השבוע בזה שבחרנ 93; להתאר 95; אצלם. ...
In the Misty Mountains....
... set in.
Wednesday morning arrived and it was still overcast but not raining when we set out just before 8am to go to the Jenolan Caves situated on the road to Oberon. We drove through mist and clouds most of the time firstly climbing high up the mountains and then zig zagging our way all the way down to the entrance to the caves. On a downhill just past the sign “Please exercise extreme caution” we were thankfully going very slowly when a kangaroo decided ...
Oh the air I breathe!
... but it was set up enough for the boys to have a go at driving the trains. Both had good goes until Captain Tom managed to derail a train. He wasn't going very fast and the look on his face showed that he was horrified to have been the derailer! Wayne was so lovely he didn't get cross at all and he even let Tom finish his turn!
We chatted on the balcony for a bit longer (their gardens were magnificent - 8 years on the making) but the wind was really cold so we ...
Walking all over the world
... in a local cafe, before catching the train home and jumping into a gorgeously hot shower, with hot soup for tea, yum.
Next day dawns a bit brighter, and so we set off on another walk. Due to a bushfire about a month ago, some parts are closed unfurtunately, so we head to the more touristy, but very impressive Three Sisters - some pillars of stone standing alone amongst a stunning view across the valley. Apparently there are some castle ruins in the middle of ...