Blue (Monday) Mountains ⛰️

A very early start this morning, 05:30, so that we could be down in the lobby for our eat-in takeaway breakfast box 📦 which was a real waste of time and money 💰 (a small croissant, a small pot of yogurt, pear 🍐 and an apple 🍎). Little did we know this was how our day was going to pan out........ 😕😩😭
We were the first ones at the Hilton Hotel, and funnily enough, also on our tour were 4 Americans who we had seen at our hotel in Hokitika, New Zealand 🇳🇿. By 07:30, we are off with just 2 more pick-ups to do before leaving Sydney for the Blue Mountains. An hour later we were at our 1st stop; Featherdale Wildlife Park, where we would have the chance to feed a Kangaroo; if only the Chinese hadn't fed them by the time we got there and hold a Koala bear and have a photograph again if only the Chinese hadn't got there first and tired the Koalas out first!! But hey, 35 minutes queueing up, and we had our photograph and then had to run around the park to try and see as much as possible; Tasmanian Devil and the Blue Penguins 🐧 (others we didn't get to see) in the remaining 20 minutes at the park. We then drove off into the Blue Mountains, stopping again just over an hour later at Wentworth Falls. After 20 minutes or so, we stopped again at Jamison Lookout before stopping again at the Three Sisters. After that we had 45 minute lunch stop at A small town called Leura; which truly isn't long enough when you don't know where to go what to eat and when you do order, they bring you the wrong food!! We then drove onto Mount Blackheath, which overlooked grassy farmlands that really would make ideal golf courses. Talking of which Australia has the most golf courses per person than anywhere else in the world. After this last stop, we went in search of wild Kangaroos, finding 3 🦘 of them. After stopping off at a service station for 20 minutes to buy water, we headed back to Sydney, arriving back at the Hilton shortly before 18:30.
It was a very enjoyable day if sitting for hours on a cramped coach being tossed about on shoddy suspension is your thing. In a nutshell, too much was crammed into the day, and not enough time allowed for seeing (& having a photo with) Koalas and lunch. 👎もっと詳しく