Those Mountains aint Blue!

The Blue Mountains is a massive national park in land from Sydney, about 2 hours away. The name comes from the mist that forms around the mountains by the eucalyptus creating a blue hugh, don't ya know.

The day we left for the region it started to rain and rain and rain and.. you get the point! After visiting the tourist information centre and hearing you can't really see anything we decided to head to the Jenolan Caves, after making a quick stop at the Wentworth falls - as you can see by the picture below the view was awesome!

The Jenolan caves are a massive collection of limestone caves, we took a guided tour around the Lucas caves and then a self guided tour around the Nettle and Coach House Caves. We were both so impressed by them (they were massive and a bit creepy) we decided to stay and take the night ghost and mysteries tour, oooohhhhhhh!

Once the sun had gone we met up with our group and group leader Gordon. Gordon had decided since we were only a small group of 8 and were up for a laugh he took us to see some spots not normally seen which was a great opportunity and turned into a bit of an adventure - especially when he decided to take us to see the River cave. As there was so much rain it had flooded slightly so we had to take our shoes and socks off and wade through knee deep freezing cold water!

Gordon was a good laugh and we got to see some interesting things, although I was reminded of cheesy horror films a few times 'I've never taken anyone down here before…' 'Now I shouldn't be showing you this, it's been closed of for years!' and so on!

In the morning we headed back to Katoomba and was greeted by the sky clearing and rain stopping, the views were incredible. We took the scenic sky way which is basically a massive gondola with a glass floor.

Then we headed down to the valley via the steepest train in the world (it's in the Guinness book of world records) and checked out the scenic pathway filled with the history of the coal mine and many massive trees.

Once we made our way back up we walked over to Eco Point to see the three sisters, three big rocks which look over the blue mountains. An incredible view.

After a long day of sight seeing we made our way to the next rest stop but as it was our anniversary (three years, can you believe it!) we decided to treat our selves to a romantic meal.

A KFC, half a bottle of white wine, half a bottle of red wine, chocolate and a pack of nerds, perfect!