The Michelsons Big Adventure: The Blue Mountains

After Victoria, we took a day to drive to the western edge of the Blue Mountains. We crossed them at Katoomba, site of the Three Sisters. According to legend, three girls were turned to stone by a helpful shaman while escaping an evildoer. The shaman's wand was broken and he was unable to turn them back to humans. So there they sit, waiting.

Sunset at Hasams Walls, near the second largest uplift subsidence (or subsided uplift?) in the world. The first is the Grand Canyon.

View of the Three Sisters from Echo Point. We couldn't get an echo from here.

But we did get a great echo from the Prince of Wales lookout along the rim trail.

This railway was a thrill ride! Here's Andrew in what they used to use to descend the cliff face.

Pretty scenery along the walk. The first is a picture of Katoomba Falls from near the miner's camp. Thar's coal in them thar hills.

A railway, a flyway, and a skyway took us from cliff point to cliff point, with some boardwalk trails in between. These pictures are from the skyway, the last is Katoomba Falls. You can tell they've had a long drought.

Another walk, this time down a long staircase, to another beautiful falls.