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<\/a><\/p>\nWe would see similar beautiful sights during our two days here.\u00a0 There are sheer cliffs everywhere around the canyon.\u00a0 The vegetation is incredibly lush!<\/p>\n
Selfie time!<\/p>\n We walked into Luera for dinner that night.\u00a0 It’s a cute little town with one main road down the middle.\u00a0 If you visit, make sure you check out the Beer Garden in the nearby Alexandra Hotel.\u00a0 I didn’t take any photos, but it’s a nice spot a short walk from downtown and they have excellent beer on draft!<\/p>\n The Blue Mountains, and Luera in particular, have a large population of Yellow-Crested Cockatoo’s!\u00a0 They were everywhere!\u00a0 Apparently they have become quite adept at lifting up trash can lids, but we didn’t witness that.<\/p>\n There is a wine store on the main drag with the most informative and helpful owner.\u00a0 We were going to have dinner the next night for my birthday, and the restaurant allows you to bring in your own wine for a $10 corkage.\u00a0 The shop owner helped us pick out an excellent Shiraz from a local small family-run winery called Bloodwood.\u00a0 Excellent choice!\u00a0 If we lived here I’d be in this wine store all the time!<\/p>\n The next morning we made our way to the Wentworth Falls Lookout.<\/p>\n This shot of Wentworth Falls is from the “Prince’s Rock Lookout”, just a short walk from the parking lot.\u00a0 Notice the small rainbow from the mist of the falls!<\/p>\n It was interesting to note that there is a “Fletcher’s Lookout”!<\/p>\n This one is a little bit closer to Wentworth Falls, and has a better view of the falls with the surrounding bluff and valley.<\/p>\n Just before crossing the stream that creates Wentworth Falls we had to take another selfie.<\/p>\n Here is the water leading over the edge of the falls.\u00a0 It hadn’t rained for several days so it was rather calm.<\/p>\n Just past the Wentworth stream you can hike along side the cliff edge on a trail that is embedded into the cliff wall.\u00a0 It makes for some excellent views!<\/p>\n Here is Wentworth Falls from a different perspective.<\/p>\n This photo gives you a view of the trail that runs along the cliff wall.<\/p>\n Another view of the trail.\u00a0 A very cool hike!<\/p>\n They have various metal markers along the trails.\u00a0 I started taking photos of them whenever I saw them.<\/p>\n We then drove about 15 minutes west to the town of Katoomba to visit “Echo Point”, that has an excellent view of this rock formation known as The Three Sisters.\u00a0 According to an Aboriginal legend, three sisters from the local Katoomba tribe fell in love with three brothers from the neighboring Nepean tribe, but tribal law forbade them to marry.\u00a0 The three brothers tried to take the sisters from their tribe, so a witchdoctor turned them into stone to protect them.\u00a0 He meant to reverse the spell, but he was killed in the fight, so the three sisters have been perpetually frozen in stone.<\/p>\n There is a short hike down to get a better view of the first sister.<\/p>\n Another metal lizard made an appearance on this path.<\/p>\n Time to test the selfie skills!<\/p>\n Twenty minutes north of Katoomba is the town of Blackheath, with perhaps the best view in the Blue Mountains at Govett’s Leap.\u00a0 The lookout is named for William Govett, a painter and surveyor who was the first European to visit this spot in June 1831.<\/p>\n The views of the Grose Valley are incredible!<\/p>\n There is also a view of Govett’s Leap Falls.\u00a0 Unfortunately the region is in the middle of a drought so the falls were pretty minimal.<\/p>\n Part of the reason this waterfall looks so small in the last photo is the water is mostly being pushed back up by the wind.\u00a0 We walked to this spot adjacent to the falls and the mist from the falls was dropping all around us.<\/p>\n We took turns taking photos with another couple at this spot.<\/p>\n One last shot from Govett’s Leap.\u00a0 The waterfall falls 591 feet, making it the 17th tallest waterfall in Australia.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n