Blue Mountains - Wentworth Pass

We went on a trip up to the Blue Mountains - about 1 1/2 hours from Sydney in the car.

They are called mountains but they'remore like canyons and gorges, from the bottom of which the top does seem quite high! It's called the Blue Mountains since the pines make a kind of blue-ish haze, very dense jungle type areas and lots of really beautiful waterfalls.

We went to an area called Wentworth falls and walked along the Wentworth pass to Empress falls. The first part of the walk is quite touristy by the falls, then you start to go down some extremely steep stairs and ladders to get to the bottom of the canyon. They're the reason for the 'hard' grading in the walk book I think, the rest of the walk is not too bad and only about 6k. It takes about 3 hours though with all the ladders and having a paddle in the pools and the bottom of the falls!

A map of where we went is here, but bewarned the stairs are quite tough!

Boxing day walk

We went for a walk from Mosman along the coast past Taronga. Stopped off at a small beach near our house called Athol Cove I think, it was a really hot day but the water is still pretty cold so didn't manage much of a swim.

Xmas day in Bondi

We had a lovely christmas day with Adam's brother Matt and over in Bondi with some friends, Ryan cooked an amazing roast dinner!

4wd

Cars a pretty expensive out here, I think it must be to do with importing them and all the tax.

We set out to get a small honda jazz or something, but ended up with a Nissan Xtrail 4x4!

I do feel a bit of environmental guilt but it will be great to go out to the mountains with and to get over to Manly with surfboards (have to learn to surf now!)

I'm finding it easier to drive than I thought, although parking is still a bit of a problem. It has already proved it's worth though after a massive trip to ikea showed we could fit so much in it - a bit more practical than the honda 2000 was!

Can't wait to do a trip up to the blue mountains now.!

Mosman sunsets

We've finally got broadband at home so will have to make up for lack of posts.

We had a great sunset from the balcony the other day! Really beautiful. We're finding Mosman to be a little bit too quiet for us (might move to Bondi or somewhere after our lease is up) but this kind of thing makes up for it!

I love sitting out on the balcony, so peaceful :-)