Sydney! Blue Mountains

We went to the Blue Mountains on April 18th, it is a day trip from Sydney which started bright and early. Their was lots of hiking involved but the views were pretty awesome. Got to see some Kangaroos, eat some meat pies and see the famous Three Sisters.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(Australia)

A kangaroo chewin' on grass...If it wasn't obvious.

Some bush and dirt.

You NEED to zoom in on this. This was a HUGE ant.

A cool flower..I thought.

The blue mountains..can you see the blue haze? It's caused by the Eucalyptus trees.

A waterfall..on our hike down in to the valley.

Aussie style lunch.. Meat Pie! It was good..didn't taste too healthy though.

More Blue Mountains!

The famous Three Sisters...

The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe.

These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.

The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.

Funny enough, they are eroding as I write this and will eventually be gone...

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