Sep
29
2010
Kind of Ausrtalia’s version of the Grand Canyon – but apparently older being almost 290million y/old!! – is a 2hour train journey west from Sydney. The train by the way is a triple-decker modern contraption with seatbacks that flip over to make a 4 seat facing eachother layout: jolly clever! And it only cost $16 for both of us one-way.
‘Blue’ Mountains because the vegetation gives a blue glow.
And its home to Scenic World, which is a system of Cable Car, Fenicular train and Skyway which has a glass floor, which is a bit bizarre when travelling 300m up!! The Cable Car has the most vertical descent of its kind in the world, as does the Fenicular (which was once the old coal mining haulage train ‘back in the day’ !). And this system of travel takes you down into the famous local rainforest near a place called Echo Point, where theres a really good wooden walkway for 2.8km around the national park. A particularly exertive walk for us both today as we spent 5+ hours yesterday putting together flat-pack furniture at Rob & Annie’s and a variety of underused muscles are now unhappy!! Another good 5K walk tomorrow should them out!
In a couple of days’ time we going to take a day trip to the Jenolan Caves – not only the oldest caves in the world, but also the first to have an audio guide track available in Klingon….there was a USS Jenolan in an episode of Star Trek TNG you see so they have been honoured with an officially translated guide! Seems that Star Trek is following us like the earthquakes on our travels!!
