An early start to the day as we were picked up at 07:20 for our trip out to the Blue Mountains. Before the main walks of the day our guide drove us to a national park in the hope of spotting a pack of kangaroos… and we did! There were five of them and we were lucky enough to see them lounging around in an open space, getting about 15m from them before taking some snaps.
After this brief stop we continued to our fist walk of the day: Wentworth Falls. This was a 2 hour walk, which didn’t sound appealing as it was bouncing it down and very cloudy. Unbelievably, the clouds cleared at all the right moments, allowing us to see the great views of the mountains, including Mount Solitude (or something!) We also got very close to the falls which was well worth the trek (involving some of the steepest steps we’ve ever seen). We were both thankful that we’d packed our waterproofs as these really took a drenching… we felt a little sorry for those in their best trainers, t-shirts and shorts (a little but not much!)
After lunch we were taken to Katoomba, followed by a trip to scenic world (Sounds like a theme park but really is not!). We walked the Furber Stairs (all 860 of them) before seeing another impressive waterfall (Katoomba Falls.) The sky, yet again, cleared long enough for us to have a great view of The Three Sisters (rock formation.) Next we had a look at the old coal mining area, before taking a train back to the top and missing out on all those steps again! This train, however is the world’s steepest gradient cabled train (or something!) and travelling up the 52 degree slope facing back down into the valley is not for the faint hearted.
All in all a good day even with the ridiculously wet weather.
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