There was some rain forecast for the Saturday that we, 3 London ladies, planned to go to the Blue Mountains… not great if you’re going to a place where you primarily go for the views. But when we left Sydney, it didn’t look too bad, so we had high hopes that we would be able to see the famous 3 sisters… But alas, this was the view we had:
It so often happens, apparently, that the gift shop sells completely white cards with “Three Sisters in the mist” written on it… so one could say that at least we could see a little bit… Anyway – we just joked about it, took our pictures in front of what I was told to be quite a spectacular sight, and then saw the following happening:
The mist seemed to be clearing…! So we decided to go to the shops nearby first for a browse – perhaps the mist would be cleared by the time we got back…:
The mist had cleared indeed ☺ And here are the famous Three Sisters – a great sight indeed:
Quite impressive, these rugged rocks. Not only the Three Sisters, but all around the valley. As if a very big bulldozer has made a path through the rocks, leaving very straight edges/sides (see photo above Three Sisters). And every so often just a little folly like the Three Sisters. Actually – rather than a bulldozer, how about this for an explanation:
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:11 (KJV)
I know that the prevailing “scientific” opinion is that this landscape is 100’s of thousands or so years old (may have a couple of zero’s too many or too few), however, this account, of “all the fountains of the great deep” being “broken up” – doesn’t that give a perfect explanation why the rocks look as if they are broken off with these straight, almost vertical, edges…
After taking our pictures, we went to Leura for lunch: a nice little place with a row of Cherry Blossom trees in the middle of the “High Street” (not sure that’s the name of the street, but it is basically the main street in Leura – there isn’t much else).
Other than this, we just had a lovely catch up, so I have not a lot more to share. I would like to go back to the Blue Mountains, though: perhaps in the last few days of my holidays… and explore a couple more places.
Next week – last Saturday in Sydney… already! Finally, Sydney Zoo (was in the planning for the Saturday we went to Featherdale instead). A very iconic place in Sydney… with lovely views of… you’ve guessed it: the harbour with Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera house…