On Sunday, Nova, Elizabeth and I woke up to go on a Blue Mountains Tour. We first stopped at a Wildlife park where we could once again pet Koalas and Kangaroos and see Dingos and Wombats.
On our way from the Wildlife park to Scenic World, we stopped at a lookout point with a spectacular view of the blue mountains, named for the blueish haze that lingers over the scenery. From Echo Point we had a phenomenal view of the Three Sisters, rock formations with a legend. The legend is that three aboriginal sisters fell in love with three men from a neighboring tribe, but were forbidden to marry due to tribal law. A battle ensued, and in an effort to protect the three sisters, they were turned into stone by a witch doctor. The witch doctor was killed in battle and was the only one who could turn them back, thus the sisters remain forever as stone.
After spending some time there, we bussed our way up to Scenic World. Seeing the Blue Mountains the way tourists were intended to see them. We took the steepest railway in the world down a mountainside to get to a trail, then we walked through the forest and found our way to the cable car to go slowly up the mountainside taking in the view, with our camera lenses pressed up against the glass walls with 35 other tourists.
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