So I went to the Blue Mountains with Stac, Bets, Drew and Charlie for the weekend. It was only like a 5 hour train ride or so, not too bad and nice and cheap. We stayed in a hostel in a small town called Katoomba, almost as small as Airlie Beach, and just like Airlie Beach I fell in love with it! Its winter in Australia now btw, so it was even colder in the mountains (SURPRISE!), but other than that the weather was absolutely amazing, some of the clearest days we've had...we were very lucky! Pretty much everyone was telling us not to go cause apparently the weather would be awful, eff that, turned out perfect.
The first day we just took this small trolley tour thingy around the town and took some pretty pics and went to Echo Point, which is a pretty popular lookout point...it over looks the Three Sisters...pretty cooooool. Oh and if you wanted to know...the Blue Mountains are called that because theres this blue haze over them pretty much all the time, depending on weather, and its caused by the Eucalyptus...there ya go, some trivia for ya. Anyways, we did that for a couple hours then got something to eat and then posted up with some beer and goon and got our drank on...pretty quiet night though. I know Charlie and I were a little disappointed by the hostel, not because it was gross or anything, but because no one was socializing or hanging out...it was pretty much he and I hanging out in the pool room til like 4...oh well, still good times.
Got up nice and early to check out and go exploring some more the next day. We did 2 crazy high gondola rides over the mountains...it was pretty neat, insanely cool views of waterfalls and the such. Then we all kinda split ways...Bets and Stac went to a chocolate factory, old toy shop museum and the cascade falls (which i wanted to do as well, but didnt have time) and me, Charlie and Drew went on an 8 mile hike to go see a ruined "castle"...we could see it from far awar at Echo Point and it looked sick so we decided to do the 5 hour hike...it was crazy fun and strenuous and i probably ate shit and died about a million times, but it was totally worth it by the time we got there. The only thing was that it wasnt an ACTUAL castle like we thought, which btw I dont know why we would think it would be an actual castle in the middle of the blue mountains in Australia...doesnt really make sense so dumb on our part, instead it was HUGE rocks on the top of this hill...we definitely climbed to the top of them and I would say from the highest point it was probably like 6 stories to the bottom of the rock...SO incredible! We just chilled there for a good 30 minutes and took it all in. I wish we could have camped there, but we didnt bring any camping gear with us because we didnt want to deal with it on the train, oh well, maybe another time. And besides the views being awesome...one of the best parts of the trip was that we were surrounded by Asians and it brought us a lot of laughs...no worries, we werent rude, we just mimicked everything they said and we're getting pretty good at it now...Herrooo...hahaha, k I'm done.
Either way, it was a freakin awesome weekend and there are some tight pictures, courtesy of Charlie and Betsy because I'm lazy and didnt want to take my camera out. Anyways, thats all for now...going to the 'real' Melbourne, as Drew says, this weekend...stokageeee, ttyl, love and miss!!!
"The tinge is caused by mie scattering which occurs when incoming ultraviolet radiation is scattered by particles within the atmosphere creating a blue-greyish colour to any distant objects, including mountains and clouds.[citation needed] It is widely, but incorrectly, believed that this is created by light reflecting off eucalypt leaves."
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