Road trip to Sydney

Sunday we left Byron Bay and drove to Port Macquarie. It turned out to be another nice(ish) beach town with good surf breaks (we don’t even react anymore).

We drove around and ended up at the Tacking Point lighthouse. The lighting was amazing so we  hung out there for a while and just enjoyed the beauty of God’s creation…and of course, Tim took photos like a madman.

Jill went for another beach path run the next morning and then we hit the road again knowing we had quite a few kilometers to kill before reaching Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The drive was very green and extremely uneventful.

We arrived in Katoomba at around 5pm, checked in to the local YHA, and went to the lookout point for the Three Sisters. They are a series of three very regal rock formations rising up out of an expansive valley. We walked down to the rock formations and half way down “the great stairway” – lots and lots of steep stairs leading to the valley floor. We only made it half way down because we didn’t want to climb back up:)

This evening we ended up in a small cafe drinking hazelnut hot chocolate, eating decadent cheesecake, and playing a rousing game of checkers.

Tomorrow we’ll do a bit of hiking and then head into Sydney for our final 36 hours in Australia and abroad for that matter. Wow! We’re not sure we’ll blog again before we catch our flight to Cali. If we don’t blog before Christmas, we will afterwards.

We are having a great time and are already reminiscing about how much fun we’ve had and all the memories we’ve made. Until next time…

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~ by spbound on December 22, 2008.