After my family got what seemed like an eternal sleep, they woke Ally and I up at 7 to make our way to the Blue Mountains. I believe my father was up the earliest at like 3 or something. Anyway, we went to the lookout of the Three Sisters first.
Here is my mother happily walking down the path to actually walk down to the Three Sisters. Australia can get cold, I didn't know it would get as cold as it did in the Blue Mountains, they survived it though.
This is my father and I standing beneath one of the Three Sisters. The bridge we had to cross when you looked over the side was a fair distance down. You have to be pretty good with heights to get to this lookout.
After getting to the Three Sisters we hiked back to the main lookout and my mother got her picture with the whole blue mountains behind her.
So we drove around looking at different look out points. At this particular one, Nick attempted to look like he was holding up that mountain in the background....yeah....doesn't quite look like that. It looks like he just finished a dance number or something. Lovely face there too Kate.
The next location we went to had the steepest railway in the world, so we had to ride it to say we did. The train actually goes through a tunnel in the mountain as well, but I wanted it to be longer than it was. However, it lived up to its reputation as being the steepest in the world.
The train took us to the Blue Mountains Valley where we followed some trails around the rainforest that was in the valley. That's where we found this big ole tree.
They also had some history displays showing the lives of the miners that used to work in the Blue Mountains. Here I am riding my noble steed with my servant in the background.
The forest cut out a lot of the light so it is important to magnify this picture. This beautiful bird is a lyrebird which also uses its array of tail feathers to attract a mate's attraction. Much like a peacock. Follow this link to check out the noise they make: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y <----Really remarkable birds, did you hear the lasers?
So we had to get back to the top again, but rather than hike or take the railway we decided on the skyrail. This picture was taken from the inside of the carriage and it passed through that gap in the rocks.
To end the day, I took them to where I went abesailing. The bare rock in the front was one of the ones I went off of. Funny story though, the vehicle we rented didn't exactly have the best tires in world. The road was all dirt so my family was nervous we weren't gonna be able to get back to pavement. Well, we all loaded into the car and guess what happened? Well, the car didn't move and was digging into the dirt. I was panicing, what have I done! How could a bus drive down this road but our van can't? Well we got out and were pushing and my dad floored it. Next thing we were smelling burning rubber. Turns out my dad had left the parking brake on....sigh...I TOLD THEM WE'D BE FINE! Once the parking brake was off we had no trouble driving on the dirt. For a while though, there was tension hahaha. Stuck in a national park on a dirt road in Australia which in our insurance contract said we weren't supposed to do. Thank the Lord my dad forgot the parking brake was on.
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