We have well and truly settled into our Sydney Park.  The food is good, the showers are great, the only drawback is the birds have to compete with the traffic to be heard.

Wednesday we went for a drive to Berowra Waters, a lovely little village on the Hawkesbury River.  As is usual with our drives it was a very windy and hilly road but the views are spectacular.  We had lunch at the Berowra Waters Marina.  We ordered fish and chips and although it was a little cool outside, we took a table at the edge of the balcony.

Ben was sitting holding his fish when a kookaburra flew between us and took the fish straight out of his hands.  It was so fast that he didn’t realise what had happened but everyone else at the marina saw it and cheered the kookaburra.  It had good taste that bird though because it was the nicest piece of fish we have had for a while.

We took the free ferry across the Hawkesbury and came back through some lovely country roads.

Thursday we went to the Macquarie Centre, a huge shopping centre in North Ryde.  Neither of us could cope with the noise in the place and although Colin came to meet us for lunch, we gave it a miss and headed home.

Today Friday, we set off for The Blue Mountains.  Ben had never been up there before so we thought it would be a good opportunity for him to visit.  It is a long slow steady climb to the top of the mountains where you reach Katoomba.  Just as we arrived there was an almighty thunder storm and everything below us was shrouded in mist.  Luckily by the time we had some lunch, the rain had almost cleared and we were able to take some pictures.  The most famous landmark in Katoomba is the three sisters rock formation.  Aboriginal legend says these three rocks are sisters who were turned to stone.  The clouds were very low and the cablecar and skyway disappeared into the clouds on the way down.

We did just a couple of the many walks to the different lookouts, occasionally stopping to shelter from the rain.

The best lookout is of course Mary’s Lookout   Why they would name something that high up after me I do not know.  It took a lot of courage for me to walk out there to have a picture taken.

Before leaving Katoomba, Ben dallied a while with the three sisters.  I only managed to capture a shot of him with two of them, you’ll have to take my word for it that there were three.

If you are all wondering why there are so many pictures of Ben in this post, I borrowed Colin’s camera and managed to finally get some pictures of my own to use.  Now I think my pictures are just as good ..what do you think?