I met Colleen at the airport this morning and it was a good flight for her and her luggage arrived with her. We directly headed up to the Blue Mountains which due to the Eucalyptus which comprise most of the forest here and give the area its blue hue. We visited the Three Sisters Lookout which is a bit like a forested Grand canyou. It was kind of misty or smokey or something so it was difficult to get a photo that showed the actual gradeur of the site. We then stopped to visit the nearby cascades/falls which were deep in the canyou. This is same area that experienced bad forest fires two weeks ago. We did not see any burnt trees but tomorrow we will be in another area and maybe will see the damage. The news now is to visit as this area depends on tourisim a lot.
Colleen is doing great and we headed back to the hotel after doing some gorcery shopping for breakfast food and we had a take out lunch that we ate at the Three Sisters Lookout.
We are back at the motel now and after a celebratory glass of wine to start Colleen's trip, Colleen is tucking up into bed early, she needs to get in a good long sleep to turn herself around and we are getting up earlty tomorrow am to go birding with Carol Proberts who lives here in Katoomba and is the expert birder for the Capertee Valley. So we have to be fresh for that.
Colleen's first Australian bird was the Austarlian Magpie near the airport in Sydney and then she has seen the wonderful huge Sullphur Crested Cockatoos. I know she will see lots tomorrow as we looked for birdds today but they just were not around as we don't know really where to look for them.
It is back to being quite warm here and we are up high, so it is a little moderated by a good breeze, so it is very comfortable for touring or birding.
What no one told us is the deafening sound of some insect or cicada, it is truly unbelievable and it is everywhere, one can't hear anything else in the woods and you cab forget about hearing a bird. Colleen tried to make a audio oopy of the insect chorus. We have not seen the insects that make this sound but we will ask Carol about it tomorrow. That's it for today.
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