What a road trip so far!

They say Australia is one of the driest countries.... well, not when we are here apparently.
We have had quite some rain so far, but that didn't stop us from having a great time!

After our not-so-long flight from New Zealand (normally everything is far from NZ!) we spent 2.5 days in Sydney. We walked around the harbour, viewed the Harbour Bridge, The Rocks (the place where the first Europeans settled) and the famous Opera House.



The girls loved the 360 degrees view of the city from the Sydney Tower Eye, the day trip to Manly by ferry and the visit to the Sea Life Sanctuary were a big hit too. But most of all they loved the Circus Factory at the Powerhouse Museum. I never knew I was so good a spinning plates, I can always change careers if need be. And lily could show off her hoolahoop skills on stage!




It was great to meet our friends Amber and Andrew (and there adorable children) whom we met in South Africa!

After three days of drizzle rain we headed to the Blue Mountains in our campervan! Oh boy, the famous Three Sisters were nowhere to be seen due to the heavy fog. In the Jenolan caves the mist didn't bother us, so we spend a few hours visiting these 400 million years old caves, which are one of the most extensive (350 caves!) limestone caves in the world.
The winding road there was pretty narrow and steep at times, very smart idea to make it a one way road during the busiest hours of the day, because I don't think I could have squeezed myself past a big tour bus on that road....

In the late afternoon the Three Sisters were visible so we enjoyed a glimpse of them, but our hope to visit them the next day as well and go for a walk in the Blue Mountains was again squashed by the heavy fog.....




Nevertheless, a wonderful trip along the Bells Line of Road to view a bit more went in and out of the mist (wow wonderful, hmmm heavy fog, oh look there, hmm can't see a thing....).
On our way to Booderee National Park were we camped for the night we again visited a friend from South Africa, this time Mahala and her two cute little sons in Wollongong.

Yesterday morning in we had an amazing early morning walk in Booderee NP to a stunning, deserted beach. Finally we had a beautiful day, warm (25 degrees) and blue skies! We saw our first wild wallabies and we even found an (empty) shark egg!









On our way to our next stop in Eden (what's in a name) we past several lovely little towns, too bad we couldn't visit them all, we really need at least 6 months here! It is already so difficult to decide what national park to visit and what to leave for another time....





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