Blue Mountains

On Monday, the last day of the Queen's Birthday long weekend (translated - lots of traffic, tourists and slow downs of every description) - we took a bus tour to the Blue Mountains which are about an hour and a half south west of Sydney (when the travelling is good).  Here, in no particular order, are some of the sights of the day.

A brave little bird on a back path that kept me company for quite some time.  He's about the size of a robin.

The Katoomba Cascades - beautiful and in the photo you can't tell that it was raining quite steadily while this photo was taken.  Most of the day was pretty clear, so we were lucky as it had been forecast to rain all day.

The sandstone formations along the path at Echo Point.

The "Three Sisters" of the Blue Mountains.  Different than Canmore - an apparently there was serious sibling rivalry as there were once Seven Sisters ... you can see in the right side of the photo where the less fortunate sisters fell from their precarious perch.  

A sign I thought could be useful sometime ... although I've yet to see any actual tracks that look like this.

Down nearer the bottom of the Blue Mountains (which, as a geographical entity seemed more like a canyon than mountains - but I only had a small perspective).  The palm type foliage reminds me that I'm not very close to home.

Also near the bottom was a display of the coal mining history of the district.

I don't know what this is called, but it was too pretty not to take a photo of.  Not wild, but a huge big tree/bush of them in a garden area.