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December 29th 2009

Published: December 29th 2009

Hello, After 3 weeks holiday it's time to start working but first I will share the beauty we saw with you. In brief, I went with my sister Goele for 10 days to Katoomba village in the Blue Mountains and afterwards another 5 days to Sydney and.... I really enjoyed!!! We made wonderful tours in a landscape that changed from a very hot dry forest with the deafening screaming of cicada-males, to wet... Read Full Entry

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We failed but at least we tried

Another trip where the path was not very clear and with junctions everywhere. At the end we decided to go back because it was too risky to not find the right way back anymore. But we learned what leeches are during this trip (and the funny thing is that at first I said to Goele "Ho, look what a funny caterpillar" and few minutes later we were jumping up and down removing these nasty creatures from our socks and shoes [:o]

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Blue mountain train

The reason we chose Blue Mountains is that it is easily accessible by train so that we didn't had to hire a car.

Bee combs on the roof

I heard buzzing and looked closer ...

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and yes indeed it were honey combs at the cliff. Strange view.

Unknown little poor thing

I saw a tail when passing this little cave and went closer. We think it was dying because it didn't look very healthy.

Female lyrebird?

Cicadas everywhere

The left skins of cicadas were everywhere on the trees and it was also in this forest in the valley that you almost needed ear plugs because of their noise.