Second ride - Scenic Railway

Our second ride we took was the scenic railway. This was an epic ride. I could ride this one all day. Every day. It has a feature where you can choose how you want to enjoy the ride. Laidback, normal, or cliffhanger. It was dependent upon the degree of your seat. We opted for cliffhanger.

This ride was only 90 total seconds but it was fun. It had a 310 meter descent and it was 52 degrees steep.

To say it was steep was kind of an understatement.

Originally, John Britty North bought the land at the bottom of the cliffs in 1877 to look for coal and shale. He made the railway as a means to get the coal and shale up to the top.

For six pence, visitors could ride the 12-passenger car. The workers would charge on weekends and holidays for visitors to ride up and down in the car in order to make extra money.

Once at the bottom, we used their walkways to walk around. It was a literal rainforest at the bottom. Lo and behold we found more dinosaurs. Can't escape those guys. We also saw a magpie and Erik might have seen one of their elusive marsupials, but we aren't sure. It was quick whatever it was that he saw.

There was a statue that I tried to snap a picture of. This old lady came up and stood there waiting on her husband who was 30 seconds away. I asked if I could just take a picture of the statue and she said, "no no", and made me wait for her husband to come over and sit on the horse statue. There were only two times I wanted to punch someone today and she was the first time.

There were so many ferns in this forest. You count the nubs on the fern to figure out how old they are. They also had gum trees where the bark would flake off and look like hair. They had smooth bark trees and millions of vines.

It was dramatically cooler the further down the path took us. At first it felt nice but then it became too much and Erik pulled out our jackets. Thank goodness for the jacket, but shorts were not boding well for me.

There were so so many people here. I'm certain it's not even peak season for them...

We walked almost the entirety of the path down below. We skipped a small section because it would take us back to the railway and we wanted to take the next ride back to the top.

Must make another post with more photos of this place.Læs mere