The Blue Mountains

   What a beautiful morning. 7 a.m, and the sun is just touching the tree tops. The Magpies are chortling, the Parrots chattering and the Cockatoos are scolding. Amazing sounds!

    So exotic and surreal. I am still somewhat in disbelief that we are actually here and doing this. WOW!!
The heat is great. Lovely weather, hot and humid...
     Directly across the road from our campground is the starting point for all of the escarpment walking trails. We used this to begin our walkabout. We went down the paths being very mindful of any spiders or snakes that we might encounter. Thankfully there were none of either. The views were stunning as the sun was shining at our end of the escarpment. The rest of the valley below was totally engulfed in fog. Beautiful to see for sure.

The trail led into the forest at the head of Katoomba Falls then up to the tram you see in the pic.

We crossed the valley on that tram to ride the worlds steepest railway. SERIOUSLY!!  A 52* drop off the side of the escarpment. An absolute blast!. 

The railway leads to a 50 minute walk through the valley forest floor.

 Eventually to a cable car back to the top. 

 We caught this cable car to the top and walked a further 5 km (on top of the 10 km we have already done) to get into Katoomba for our shopping.
Tomorrow it's off to Jenolan Caves.