Blue Mountains Tour 3/3/2012

Blue Mountains Tour & Goodbye to Naomi

Saturday - 3/3/2012

Woke up at 4.00am, and got the train from Seven Hills that got us to Wynyard Station for around 6.40.  Got a much needed coffee and then headed to Holiday In Old Sydney for the hotel pick up at 7.20.   Once we were dropped off at Star Casino/Bus station we got our bus for the tour.

There was around 20 people on the tour, so we had plenty of space on the Bus. The first stop on the tour was at Featherdale Wildlife Park and the first thing I will say is WOW!!! 

In the write up they say that you will be able to get up close and personal with the wildlife, and they were not joking. As we started to wonder through the park we you noticed that the birds were flying freely, then you came to the Koala's area. At first I just noticed one Wallaby on his own eating, so I took the opportunity to stroke him and so did Naomi. 

We noticed a large queue and it was people waiting to have there picture taken with the Koala, at this point we grabbed some food for the animals and headed into Wallabies central (well that is my name for it).  Every where you turned there was Wallabies, Kangaroos and Emus all wanting your attention or the food that you had.  Naomi quickly handed the food to me when she kept getting followed by a very persistent Emu wanting some food.

At this point I started to feed the animals and two Emu's decided they wanted what was in my hand lol.  Naomi has a couple of pictures of me hand feeding the Emu's and the Wallabies.  Just a couple of pictures below of Naomi feeding a Wallaby and a Wallaby feeding itself:

Continued round the park, the Tasmanian Devil did not come out so could not get any pictures. I did get some nice shots of one of the Dingos:

Once I had been round the rest of the park, I headed back to the Koala area and both Naomi and I had our chance to pat the Koala the pictures are below:

On the way to the next stop we tried Kangaroo and Crocodile Jerky they were both very strange and cannot see me eating it again.

The next stop was Echo Point to go and have a look at the Three Sisters, unfortunately due to bad weather we could not see them but it did not spoil the day. 

So on we went to Scenic World, we went on the steepest incline railway and then walked round the Scenic Walkway which had some amazing sculptures.  Finally we went back up to the top on the Scenic Cable car all in all it was a wet but great experience.

We stopped off at Leura on the way back, before being dropped off at Olympic Park to pick up the Captain Cook Cruise back to Circular Quay.  I can safely say that I slept really well last night and am still tired today. 

This is the bottom of the steepest railway

Sunday 4/3/2012

Another early start of 5.30am, to get Naomi to the train station in reasonable time to catch her flight to Melbourne.  I do not know how Naomi is still awake with all the travelling she has done in the past month, but wow she has had an amazing adventure. She started in Japan, then came to Sydney, then New Zealand back to Sydney now on to Melbourne and then back home to the UK. 

It has been great having Naomi here for the past couple of weekends as it has meant I have had someone to share my activities with. But I am now going to take some of Naomi's energy for adventure and will be doing more tours and if I am lucky enough to come back to Sydney later this year I will be planning a trip to New Zealand.

The rest of the day I have been getting to know my new surroundings, also had manicure and pedicure and as usual I am not patient enough and ended up smudging my nail varnish. I bought and cooked some Dory fish for the first time today, it was quite nice and very easy to cook.

Well I am a very exhausted English Girl in Sydney so I will bid you farewell for now.