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Wednesday afternoon in Katoomba - it's in the Blue Mountains and it's spectacular. I arrived here on Tuesday afternoon and I'm leaving tomorrow Thursday morning but first :-
Monday morning I was getting ready to leave Brighton Beach to travel back into Sydney to get the train to here when I got a phone call from the couple I spent Saturday with - they rang to invite me for dinner that night at one of the, if not the best restaurant in Sydney - called Altitude - check it out dudes ont'net - it was awesome. We had champagne and canapes to start with in the bar on the 36th floor overlooking Sydney Harbour and the bridge then we had red wine called Nanny Goat with the three course meal it was lovely. They even gave me the fruit and chocolates from their suite - I felt like a third world country in my own right getting hand outs from the rich guys.
Feeling a little jaded I got the train from Sydney Tuesday morning - their trains are something else double-deckers, clean with plenty of room. Chatted to a lady from Jakarta who was an Olympic standard talker she left me for dead - and I thought I could rattle on with the best. Dropped bag off at motel and went walking/hiking at a place called The Three Sisters - magnificent - the views to die for. Been walking for about two hours all up and down very tiring - sat down on a boulder to eat some of the fruit donated from the rich folks when I spotted a small red and black spider walking across my boulder - me thinks I'll take pic of that show the folks back home. Suddenly remember oops I'm in Australia they have spiders that kill - I soon got my B W A out of there very quickly.
This morning got up really early to see the birds before all the tourists arrived from Sydney - the amount of birds that I saw and heard was amazing - kookaburras, parrots - blue and red ones, green ones and very large black ones - cockatoos by the 100 and lots of small colourful jobbies. The noise from the parrots and the cockatoos was deafening.
This afternoon I caught a bus to a different spot also with panoramic views and right next to the path was a pale brown and yellow snake about two foot long and about as thick as a walking stick. At first I was very taken aback but once I saw (or thought) that he wasn't going to go for me I spent a couple of minutes just starring at him. I have to keep reminding myself that I'm in Australia - Sydney didn't feel too much different from London except for the Opera House but here in the outback it just full of wild life.
Nothing else to report but will remember something I wanted to tell you about as soon as I log out. Picking up the Greyhound Bus tomorrow to head up north via the coast - not sure about the first stop but will keep in touch.
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