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This is Steve, our tour guide. He was fun and informative and looked like a...
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These are the other folks on the tour. Three Brits and a girl from...
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Any anxieties about the trip were quickly dismissed as I noted the van's...
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Blue Mountains Technically, they're not really mountains. They're not tall enough....
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Wentworth Falls I think. There were a lot of waterfalls, and one of them were Wentworth.
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The path that we hiked on to get to the lookout points was made up of...
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A valley. Does it look like it's about to rain? Well it is.
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We hiked around for awhile and then chilled under this little overhang, which...
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Another waterfall, if you can call it that. It looks more like a leak....
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Another waterfall. If it hadn't been 50 degrees and raining, I so...
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Witch's Leap So named because there is a face in it. See it? Although I think it...
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Katoomba Coal Mine There is an enormous mining system beneath the Blue Mountains. This is the...
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Katoomba Scenic Railway This is the steepest railway in the world. It was originally used to...
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Three Sisters These enormous rock structures are the most famous part of the Blue...
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Sunset over the mountains.
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The cool part about this is that earlier in the day, I had flown over...
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The sunset created an orangey glow on the back of the mountains and gave the...
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See, I can keep an eye on all you crazy CCE kids while all the way...
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Blue Mountains YHA The hostel that we stayed at the first night was apparently one of the...
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Echo Point Early in the morning, our tour guide took us back to Echo Point to...
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Valleys in the mist. Sorry, no gorillas.
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A cliff hit by sunlight. Wake up, cliff.
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Jenolan Caves From the Blue Mountains, we drove around and around the winding hills and...
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Imperial Cave The inside of the cave, or possibly the inside of someone's liver.
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The cave got its first tooth!
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It's hard to tell from a picture, but this is looking up into an...
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In addition to stalagtites and stalagmites, the limestone also forms...
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Coral Grotto Anyone want to crawl through?
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Lot's Wife The pillar of salt from the Bible, or something dirtier? You decide!
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Crystal Cities This really did look like a city, with little stalagmite buildings and streets.
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Caves are cool.
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Crimson Rosellas After we emerged from the cave, we had lunch. These birds came and tried to...
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Caves are sometimes creepy.
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Big throbbing column of limestone.
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Aah! A cave monster!
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We descended 64 stairs to the river that runs underneath the cave. The...
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This one got into the butter...
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..and got it all over its beak, which was adorable.
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He's so happy about the butter!
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