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Australia - 2005-02-16 - 1 - Blue Mountains - Rented Cars & Buller Lookout
The international travelers had really enjoyed the sites they saw in Sydney,
but they are all country people at heart. So as soon as we got our cars
we headed for the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains start about an hour
West of Sydney. They are part of the Great Dividing Range & are about
the only thing that held Sydney at bay from pushing West. There was a
group of early conservationists that saw the importance of this area &
bought a bunch of land which they then donated to New South Wales (state
government), which became the heart of the Blue Mountains National Park.
The Blue Mountains were a barrier that people from Sydney took years to
figure out. They could not figure out how to cross them & finally had
to follow some Aborigines to get the route. On this day we drove into
the south end of the Blue Mountains. We stopped at an information center
& got a plan together for the day. The first picture shows the tourists
out of the city. The next 2 pictures are of our cars. Rodney & Charlene
nicknamed their car the Tomato Can. Dad nicknamed our car Might Mitzy
(it was a Mitsubishi Lancer). Our first nature stop of the day was Buller
Lookout where you could see trees, rock cliffs, rivers, great views &
as Charlene found out skinks (a small lizard). As you can see by the pictures
of my parents they were very happy to be out of the city & in the country.
They both grew up there & this is the type of vacation scenery they like
to see. They usually go to Colorado every year. We saw a few non-nature
things like people's houses & an old set of power lines. The video clip
shows the view & the tourists.
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