We left Newcastle by 8.30am and headed down the Pacific Motorway planning to hit Sydney around 10.30 - 11am we were advised that the traffic should be more settled by that time. We were heading to the Blue Mountains and had to negotiate the M2,M7 & M4 to make our way to the Katoomba. Our Tom Tom has lane guidance which made it a dream run negotiating the heavy traffic in the Pennant Hills area.
The motorway heading into Sydney is quiet spectacular with its mountainous terrain, very long dual lane accents and descents which tested the pulling power of the poor old Paj. Heading up into the Blue Mountains was also a steep accent, arriving at the Katoomba turnoff we turned off too early to find ourselves in a blocked off through road and a dead end side street requiring us to reverse up with the man doing road works moving the sign so we had room to go back the way we had come. Maree rang to see if we had been caught up in the massive storm that hit Sydney & surrounds with hail & heavy rain, we were very lucky must have been just in front of it.
We spent two nights at the Katoomba Caravan Park it was a good location to explore the surrounding attractions. The Blue Mountains are really spectacular and the villages are beautiful with their lovely old homes and gardens especially at this time of year as the blossom is out. Looking out at The Three Sisters is still as breath taking as it was when I was last here back in my High School days.
Saturday morning we woke to fine misty drizzle & some rain, it could have held off for a few more hours until we had negotiated Mt Victoria's very steep decent down the range heading towards Lismore.
