End of Week 2-Road trip to the Blue Mountains

Oh Ottawa.  The weather that you are pouring forth on your inhabitants is just cruel!!  We are watching and cringing from afar.

We opted to travel for a day trip on the weekend.  It was good to get some practice out on the open road.  We even both had to contend with street lights and real intersections for the first time.  Dave had a solidly fun time practicing driving a manual transmission over the mountain roads.  We continued to be very impressed at the cyclists who were on the roads.  All of them had thighs the size of my children's torsos!!
  We got some great travel advice from our new friend Holly.  So we started at Katoomba and went for some fabulous bush walks.  We walked under cliffs, down to the waterfalls and all around to various amazing look out points.  The weather was terrific and the view was crystal clear.

This was a walkway right in the middle of the falls (on the left is facing the falls, on the right is facing the cliff).  Pictures just can't do justice to the majesty of God's creation here.

 
 We then headed off to Leura and found this sign and opted to stop for a picnic.  We discovered that the charge to get in to this park was $2 a person.  Typical of the WB family, we opted to stay cheap and follow the trail down beside the park to see where it led.

 We found ourselves alone in the world on the most incredible small cliff I have ever seen.  We put down the esky (cooler) and made ourselves picnic lunches while trying to identify shapes cast in the shadows of the clouds on the tree tops below on the valley floor.  They can have their $2 view.  Ours was priceless.

 We are planning to be picnic masters by the end off this!

Echo Point

 We took a quick walk down to Echo Point to see the Three Sisters and then headed off to Scenic World.  (Bonus point for Scenic World as they accepted the Doodle's Access 2 pass and we saved $23 off of our family's admission cost.)  The whole family enjoyed the steepest incline railway in the world, the steepest aerial cablecar in the southern hemisphere and the very well signed walkway through a Jurassic rainforest.

 The doodle was not at all sure about this activity the first time as you can well see.  He conquered his fear, went on the railway and LOVED IT!

WB Family at the top of the sign

Clowns

These last two are the view down through the floor of the scenic skyway.  Also pictured are the shoes that we were required to wear as we were in the Blue Mountains and the funnel web spiders that about a million of you posted about on my facebook page are alive and well in this region.

I got all of the photos right way up this time.  Yay!  So...more photos next time?  Or would you rather just google this stuff to see professional photos that are far more impressive than anything my phone will take?  Let me know in the comments.