Blue Mountains National Park is one of the most spectacular wilderness areas in Australia. Located 90 minutes West of Sydney, the mountains get their distinctive blue coloring as a result of the evaporation of oil from the dense eucalyptus forest dispersing light in the blue colors of the spectrum. The air is so clean and pristine too - no air pollution!
The photo above is Three Sisters Rock at Echo Point located in the village of Katoomba.
Our cottage was located only a short walk, from the Point. We enjoyed numerous hiking trails and one particular walk we took was the Giant Staircase. It was over 900 steps straight up and park signs warned thes climb was strenuous. The loop took us about 3 1/2 hours to complete. Although we didn't see a lot of wildlife, we enjoyed the numerous birds, and plants specific to this region - especially the tree ferns.
Not far away was Scenic World, a former coal mine, offering open rail cars on an extremely steep incline, an enclosed cable car and a Skyway cable car that takes you across the gorge on a cable. It is extremely steep - but it wasn't that thrilling except for the heights!
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