Epic Adventure!

Blue Mountains Trip

This morning started at a brisk 3am, when I woke up from my slumber realizing that I didn’t have enough cash for the train. I woke Rachel to ask her if she had enough, and she didn’t either! Attempted to sleep for another 30 minutes, then got up to get ready and took me and Rachel’s credit cards to the atm, about a 10 minute walk, to get out some cash. When I got back at 4:30, I woke her to get ready for the day. When we got the train station some of Rachel’s friends also going on the trip called and said the train tracks were flooded and nothing was going back Thirroul (one town north of Bulli). At 5:30 in the POURING rain, we almost gave up. But, I thought no this trip was $100 and we already got our train tickets. So our train arrived about twenty minutes late, and buses were provided from Thirroul to Waterfall. From there it was about another 40 minutes by another train to Sydney. Two girls in a big town going to the YHA center for a bus in the rain. We were LOST and late. We took off running town the train corridor and amazingly made it to the bus in time for the trip. We didn’t think we were going to make it.

            Once there we met our tour guide, Nigel. He was HILARIOUS and a little cynical about his job, but funny nonetheless. We drove around for a bit but because it was sooo cloudy and rainy we couldn’t see much of the mountains. So we proceeded to have a break and me and Rachel shopped and met Goombala, an Aboriginal man, who made boomerangs and he was friendly. After that we went to the blue mountains and did an amazing bushwalk! The rain made it feel even more like a rainforest. There were 7 people total in our tour but no one else wanted to do the walk because it was raining, lame people haha. Then we took a sky tram over the scenery which for us was…fog.

            We then headed to lunch where me and Rachel had some way overpriced, but good, Indian food. Then we drove down the mountain and saw wild kangaroos! Very exciting J. For our last stop we preceded to Featherdale zoo where we saw LOTS of animals.

            Kangaroos of course! We got to pet them and watch them jump around and make all sorts of crazy noises. I also saw a joey!!! So cute. The Koalas were sooo cute too, but they smell STRONG. Like crazy bad haha. But I got to pet a baby, so it was worth it. There were Tasmanian devils, dingoes and lots of crazy birds. In fact, one bird BIT Rachel while she was taking a picture and her camera dropped in-between two fences so I had to reach my umbrella in to scoop in out. Scary thing!

            Then we started the hour bus ride home at about 5:00pm. Got the train and walked home from the train station. I can’t even describe how tired I was. But it was an amazing day, with a hilarious tour guide, a good friend and with lots of critters and pretty scenery.