I booked a tour with Wildlife Tours to the outside of Sydney to the Blue Mountains. They have eucalyptus trees there and the oils that evaporate of the surface of the leaves reflect the light and make a blue haze as you look at them.
We stopped at a few places along the way, stopping at a water fall, and taking a few bush walks through the area. The smell of eucalyptus in the air was fantastic.
Jamison lookout
From here we walked around to get to the other cliff where the water fall is located. It was a great bush walk.
During the bush walk we found a funnel web spider hole. This is the 3rd most venomous spider in the world. And… the venom can kill quickly.
Boars Head lookout and Cahill lookout.
We stopped here to see how far the Australian fires came to Sydney. This was the worst year on record for the amount of bush fires and animal lives lost. You can see the scorch marks on the rocks and areas of trees that are browner than others. Since they have had rain the last week, it is really starting to green up quickly in the area.
Three sisters rocks.
An Aboriginal tale of the Dreamtime talks of a medicine man who took his 3 daughters looking for herbs. He put them on the cliff to keep them safe but they kicked rocks to the valley below which angered a monster who raced up the cliff. To protect them, the father turned them into stone. The monster chased the medicine man around the opposite cliff carving a valley at the base. Tired, the medicine man turned himself into a bird.
At this point we had 3 options: go to the pub near 3 sisters and wait, go to the pub but take a short walk and touch the closest of the 3 sisters, or walk the rim of the canyon. I chose the latter.
Almost to the pub it started pouring and we had to be sprint. As it was not clearing soon we did not see the sunset, but it was a great day!