The Blue Mountains were last week and the scenery is quite spectacular.You might need to zoom in on this to get the Full detail, (Feedback on how the pictures look back home would be appreciated by the way.) This is the view from Echo peak at Katoomba. The three rocks on the left of the picture are the Three Sisters. Apparently a popular legend is that they are three daughters of a witch doctor who managed to lose his magic bone and failed to return them to human form once the danger passed (responsible parenting ehh) The Mountain in the Centre is the imaginatively named Mt Solitary with Jamieson Valley behind that. Just to the right is a small peak and if you zoom in you can see some rocks that if you squint looks a but like a castle. This is named in the same imaginative manner Ruined castle. It’s also the furthest point to which I walked out. Even in the Bush it is possible to find a women to pass the time with It also coincidentally is the site of the start of the longest conversation I have had in this country as it lasted 6 hours and through 3 pubs. Managing to convince the young Frenchwoman in question that us Scots are quite nice really in the process!
No idea what this actually is but it was a splash of colour in a very Brown country
I think this is an Eastern Water skink. Corrections welcome Appear to have reached the picture limit for a post
More later as I am heading south unless the visa comes through this afternoon
Some hope
