Blue Mountain experience.

We arrived in the blue mountains and met our sister in law Robyn’s dad Eric and his wife Marylou.

Eric is a young 87 and is a bionic miracle with two new hips a new knee and a new shoulder he has also had a triple bypass. This however did not curb his desire to show us the sights and drove us everywhere. Maylu added her knowledge on the Aboriginal story.

We went to echo point where it was blowing a gale and quite cold. I tried the echo but I could not get the sounds to return. The Blue Mountains are a vast area that in our view were more majestic than beautiful.

It is mountains surrounding dramatic gorges. The slate coloured haze that gives the mountains their name comes from a fine mist of oil that comes from the eucalyptus trees.

We saw the three sisters but to be totally honest in my view they could have been brothers. In fact had we not been told they were sisters I would have said they could have been 3 skate-boarders.

There is however no doubt that the person to cross these mountains for the first time was no mean feat.

Who knows who and when??? big prizes. xx

Blue Mountain on a cold windy day

Maria and Maylu at Echo point

Eric Maylu and Maria Echo Point

Three Sisters I think !!

Whilst in the Blue Mountains we drove to the Jenolan caves.

We entered with our guide the Imperial cave one of 350 caves in the region, these caves were some 360- 450 million years old. We were told that the hanging forms were stalactites and the ones going up were stalagmites. If they met and joined up, they were friendly.

We were shown some straw stalactites that were over 1 mtr long and had taken millions of years to form. I thought I could have done one bigger with my chewing gum but Maria would not let me.

The caves were 16 degrees and once we were right in the cave, the guide turned out the lights, was it black?? like black black!!!

A little voice whispered to me can you ask him to turn the lights on, I told her to close her eyes and I put my arm round her.