Sydney, Australia

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G'Day mates:
We headed out of Hunter Valley and Don and Hilary dropped us off at the train station along the way so we could head to Sydney - after three hours we were in Sydney station. Our first evening we walked around an area called 'The Rocks'. This was also our first look at the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour bridge. Sydney Harbour is as amazing as we thought and this is where we enjoyed a wonderful dinner with a view of both the Opera House and the bridge - it doesn't get much better than this.
We started out the next morning for the Blue Mountains a 2-hour train ride west of Sydney, these mountains get their name from the blue haze that you see in the distance above them. It was a beautiful sunny day so the blue hue was very visable, so we hiked the Great Round Walk. It started with a skyway trip (glass floor) to Echo Point Lookout, followed by 900 stairs down the Giant Stairway, behind the Three Sisters Mountain Peaks, followed by the 2.5 km walk to the bottom of the Scenic Railway, where at this point we ascended back up to the Scenic World Top Station on the steepest railway in the world. (Fred's imput: Sherry at this point stated "I'm not liking this!") The Giant Stairway did not have any 2 identical steps. The steps had been carved into the rocks and we had to be extremely careful navigating as it was the longest and steepest stairway I have ever encountered.

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Photos

Sydney, Australia
Opera House

Sydney, Australia
Sydney Harbour Bridge

Blue Moutains, Asutralia
Three Sisters Mountain Peakes

Comments

[Hilary]

much better to hike DOWN the stairs and take the train up - I sure wouldn't want to do it the reverse

[Eric]

Enjoy the lats days of your trip!
Fred, Cheryl, I can see from all your photographs that you guys had a fantastic trip. I'm really happy for you. I wish you a good plane ride back to Canada. Cheryl, I will see you Tuesday, I believe. Take care!