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This is a blog of our year in Sydney. Nick is undertaking an orthopaedic research fellowship as part of his training before becoming a consultant. We have given up many things to do this having sold our house and have left friends and family and jobs that we both enjoyed. However we believe it is likely to become one of the most memorable years of our lives. I am keeping this blog mainly as a personal record of events and memories. Hopefully it will still be available for our children to read in years to come.

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Tuesday 19 January 2010

The Blue Mountains



The Blue Mountains form part of the Great Dividing Range just inland and to the West of Sydney. When the first settlers arrived in Sydney many of them tried to travel West through the Blue Mountains as they believed China and freedom was on the other side. It took many years to find a route though and now this single route remains from Sydney to inner NSW.




Wentworth Falls is supposedly where the Blue Mountains begin in earnest. They are said to be called this because of the blue haze that shimmers over the green bush that carpets the valleys here. This is form by evaporated eucalytus oil from the trees, I read this as we were driving up on our first proper road trip and it really is true, not that I will convince you with these pics.


We walked around here and enjoyed seeing cockatoos and rainbow lorakeets in the trees, special. (Have since found out however that these are equivalent to blackbirds in Sydney!)


We then drove on to Leura and the Three Sisters, incredible, deep lush green valleys as far as you can see with steep sandstone peaks. It really took our breath away.
If anyone comes and stays with us this is a definate must see, the picture doesnt really manage to convey the enormity and vastness of this landscape.

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