Voyage out of the city

Today we finally got out of the city and into the Blue Mountains – took long enough! (…darn inconvenience of settling in...) The Blue Mountains don’t feel quite like the Rockies – we decided they feel more like a plateau… with some REALLY impressive gorges. And some great birds. Our plan was to drive this nice loop through Katoomba and back around to Sydney. In theory, the drive should have taken us ~3 hours. But we kept getting distracted and only made it to Wentworth Falls. And we even failed to see the Falls! But we saw lots of crimson rosellas, red-browed finches, spotted pardalotes, and a spinebill (that’s actually what Kerry is looking at in the picture, but we’ll pretend she’s looking adoringly at Ben). Ani got stuck ‘guarding the car’ for a little while when we went to check out the National Park, but she was able to come along on another hike.



And we still managed to call this little excursion “work” – we were re-tracing the footsteps of Darwin! Just give us 36 years, and then we’ll reveal our revolutionary theory.