Blue Mountains Stories


Blue Mountains -v- Grand Canyon?

A 300+ mile drive beckons today (9th March) to the Blue Mountains, 65 miles east of Sydney. After a long drive, we arrive in Katoomba, probably the centre of the area. Unfortunately, Katoomba nor indeed any of the regions towns live up to expectations and there is certainly an air of faded glory about the place. We have to remind ourselves we are here f...


Blue Mountains

Our next stop was a night in the Blue Mountains. We took a train to Katoomba from Sydney and stayed in another hostel (getting used to the whole sharing a room thing now.... sort of!) Our one day there we spent doing a 'Trolley Bus Tour" which took us to all the main sights. It was pretty cold up there but again the scenery was amazing. We walked al...


Blue Mountains

On 2nd May we travelled up to the Blue Mountains, this is part of the Great Dividing Range just outside Sydney. It gets its name from the blue haze which is a result of the oily mist given off by eucalyptuses. We got there nice and early and stopped off at Wentworth Falls. We parked up and decided we'd just have a half hour stroll to the look out po...


You Call These Mountains??

So today we had another school sponsored trip. We were taken to the Blue Mountains. This is a very self explanitory trip, we saw some mountains...but in Aussie...mountains are more like hills!! But honestly they were really pretty and we had an awesome time!! We got some great pictures, saw the Three Sisters (a rock formation in the mountain) and a few ...