Yesterday was the city, today was the countryside. We started by picking up a (very small!) hire car from the hotel and headed out of town. The Sydney traffic was pretty dire but thankfully things did get better.
First stop was a wildlife park where you can stroke Dingo Pups & Koalas, feed Wombats & Kangaroos and a multitude of birds fly around you. For a small zoo, the whole thing was well managed and you couldn't ask to get closer to the animals.
From there it was onto the Blue Mountains - bit of a misnomer this. They certainly are blue-ish (a haze caused by the many types of Eucalyptus trees), but it's really more of a huge gorge than a mountain range. When to get to the top, you're suddenly at a massive cliff dropping down into the valley which goes on for miles. Think of the Grand Canyon but covered by rain forest. All incredibly spectacular. One of the highlights was a group of three stone towers called the Three Sisters and you can walk down a precarious staircase and narrow bridge on to the first one - good training for the bridge walk and even Annette made it, although not entirely happily.
Lots of photo stops and the weather was good for most it with rain only while driving back to Sydney which again was a slow process due to traffic.
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