Jenolan Caves

Sometime in the night it began to rain. Not much and not too heavy, but it lasted for a few hours and everything is wet and refreshed in this land of common drought. We packed up the van as we had to move our site due to the late request to stay another night. We were put right behind where we had just been, only on the other side of the road, perfect.
  We got up early and waited at the bus stop in front of the park for our tour bus to the Jenolan Caves. It took us an hour or so and we went deeper into the Blue Mountains. It was a drizzly dull day but we knew it would be dry in the caves. The end of the road was a treacherous 8 km along a mostly one lane road hugging the side of the mountainside, pretty scary at times.
  We chose the second of two cave tours and spent our spare two hours walking along the Blue Lake. It is actually a smallish pond fed by a fast moving creek. Typical glacial colouring and so beautiful. We saw at least six lizards but no platypuses. Apparently there are 13 living in the lake. After that we did a self-guided tour of another cave and were mostly uninspired by it.. What do you expect for the price of free?  lol...

We joined the Orient Cave tour ( one of several cave tours available) a 90 minute guided tour through the mountain. I won't waste words but let the pictures speak for themselves, except to say that we had a Steve Irwin clone doing the tour. He was great and hilarious.

We returned to our site around 5p.m. then promptly called a cab and headed off to the pub for wifi for a dollar and Saint Patty's dinner. It's an early night tonight as it's off to Canberra in the morning.
Ta for now....  xo