Sydney Day 5 - Blue Mountains

We booked onto an Oz Experience blue mountains Day trip! This involved a very early start. We woke up at 6am which was hard when you are staying in a dorm room. You have to try and get ready with no lights on and without talking! We managed it and walked to the office where we got on the bus and drove out of Sydney towards the Blue Mountains. On the way we stopped at a National Park and saw some wild Red Kangaroos, which was really good. They were pretty tame and we managed to get pretty close to them. I managed to get a great pic of one of them, much better than the ones that Andrew took! Seeing the Kangaroos in the wild was completely different to seeing them in captivity.

After this we headed to the Mountains. Unfortunately when we arrived at our first stop, Wentworth Falls the weather had taken a turn for the worse and there was a huge thunderstorm. Our guide in his wisdom had not brought any wet weather gear with him. So needless to say he decided that the walk would be unsafe in the wet. So we all jumped back on the bus a little disappointed and went over the Furber stairs. From this walk down we could see Victoria Falls and the Three Sisters! This was a really good walk down hill all the way. Our guide was a bit crazy and decided we should do all the little side walks on the trail. We all started to walk down one until our guide came sprinting up behind us to make us stop, because he had just spoken to a couple of guys that had just walked the track and they informed him that it was a 4km track! so we all turned around and walked back! Once we reached the end of the stairs we went up the steepest Railway in the world to get back to the top! this was a much better option that walking up! The Railway was really steep though and in true Aussie style safety went out the window. You would think that on a railway that has a gradient of 52 degrees you might need something to hold you into the train, but no not in Australia. In Australia they make it more fun by giving you really slippy red plastic benches to sit on. I literally had to hold on to stop myself from ending up on the floor! Luckily the train ride only takes about a couple of mins.

After the excitement of the train we then had a lovely lunch and then went over to Echo Point where you get a great view of the Three Sisters.

We then returned to Sydney in torrential rain. the drive back took a lot longer then the drive there as the traffic was really busy! All in all a good day, glad we went to see it, i think we would of preferred it if we had been able to stay there few a day or two.