20120907 Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain day with Lynn & Monkey. We're lucky to hitch the ride with them as it's our first time to go around Australia in a car not a railway. First time on the australian expressway is a bit of unexpected because of the plenty of cars on the road. With GPS help, we drove all the way to blue mountain echo point and three sisters and they're not really remote and abandoned as I would thought they are. The view is spectacular and all the pictures you look over in front of your eyes are just the green trees down the valley and extended to who knows how many thousand or maybe million acres.  It is said that the boundless eucalyptus down there exude those particles and made the blue scene people see surround the mountains and valleys in blue mountain area. It's the scene you'll never to get in Taiwan, so I'm happy that I got a hitch to be there. Just the wind on top is blowing all the time and I would guess the summer time visit is a smart option. The weather today on the top is fickle, sometimes so windy that you get your ears frozen and hair so massy that you don't want people to look at your photos, sometimes compunded with drizzles so the dark cloud covered the sun and gone with blue sky. There're three made for tourism rides available to give it a spice on the blue mountain tour, railway, cable car and skycar. The ticket for unlimited experiences are 42 AUD (expensive), so we chose only railway and cable car rides, 21 AUD per person (not cheap for any transport in AU). Railway is steep and cable car claimed can take in as many as 84 people per ride. Worth a try for either ride, you're here after all.