Australia Day 5 - The Blue Mountains

This morning we headed west on Great Western Highway into the Blue Mountains. Our first stop was at Echo Point in the city of Katoomba, a popular spot for tourists. Unfortunately, it was a little too cloudy to see much past the nearest rock formations.  

We continued driving west, and stopped at the visitor center for Govetts Leap, where we learned more about the Blue Mountains. They are a series of ridge lines separated by deep gorges. The morning clouds had burned off.

Eventually we reached the town of Lithgow, where the grass turned brown and the trees became sparser. We headed back towards Sydney on the Bells Line of Road.

This evening we visited Wet N Wild on a cheaper twilight pass. It was a little cool, but there was almost no lines for the slides. They were fun, but like the one in the Gold Coast, it was just a basic water park.