Knew what day it was this week so I didn’t miss the coastal walk. It’s about a 4 mile walk and is highly regarded as one of the most beautiful coastal walks in the world. Unfortunately, it was cloudy, which led to some pretty much empty beaches, but the views were still beautiful.

Turns out I took most of my pictures on my camera during this walk. I can only post pictures from my phone on the blog right now. Most of the people that were at the beach that day were surfers. Riding at least 1 wave is one of my goals. Bondi Beach is one of the most famous beaches in the world and during the summer is normally wall to wall people. It was pretty much empty. The surf wall though is pretty cool. It’s covered in murals done by local artists and they paint over and change the wall every couple weeks.

The next day I headed back to the Blue Mountains. You already saw the kangaroo fight. It was our first stop and an amazing way to start the trip. Those were Eastern Grey Kangaroos, different than the wallabies we saw the other day. I want to see some Red Kangaroos. Those are the big jacked ones, but I think I have to go to the Outback to find them so it may be awhile.

After the boxing match, we headed to Wentworth Falls. We took about an hour and a half hike down to and around the falls. On the way, we stopped to check out the homes of some funnel web spiders. They’re extremely deadly, but I’ll talk more about them in an upcoming post about spiders and other Australian animals, including koalas.

Again, I think my best pictures are on my camera. Wentworth Falls is actually quite large and a lack of rainfall has diminished the waterflow. No worries though, because other than the kangaroo fight, here comes the highlight of my trip so far……..Minnehaha Falls.

As you can see, at the bottom of the falls is a freshwater swimming hole. We took about a 25 minute hike to get down to the base of the falls.

I wasn’t not going to go for a swim. It was kinda chilly, but no worse than Old Silver in June. Besides, I had to hike back up a mountain after, so I took the chance to cool off.

This was the best day of my trip so far. I really can’t wait to be alone with nature. Away from all the touristy stuff. I’ll be leaving Sydney in less than a week. Headed to Canberra (Australia’s capitol city) and then to Melbourne and Tasmania. I think the real fun is about to start!!!