Biking Blues
Since my fingers are too sensative to climb on them I've become a tourist for a few days,
and gone exploring the Blue Mountains. The most popluar tourist attraction in the Blue mountains is the Three Sisters, unfortunatly I wasn't able to borrow a camera that day, so no pics, in a way I was glad, I felt less like a tourist and wasn't exploring through my camera lense. There are these three towers of rock at the end of this ridge with an amazing view. There was an Aboriginal man dressed up in his traditional clothing playing his Digiridoo, it was so cool looking out over Australia listening to this guy playing with all the tropical birds chirping as his quire.
I went on the Scenic Railway, worlds steepest railway (51 degrees) down into the rainforest
sheltered at the bottom of the cliff. Thanks for the advice Brian ;) Its some experience walking around the rainforest, you'll have to come see it for yourself, its worth it.
Next Day me and Neal decided to do something different, so we splashed out and rented some mountain bikes for the day, I don't think I've ever pushed myself so hard on a bike, even today when I stand up my legs argue with me! Its going to be fun climbing tomorrow. It was so good to be back on a mountain bike again we followed a fire road throught this forest along a ridge and the views were spectacular. Me and Neal were well matched, I thought he would kick my ass with endurance, but I still managed to power past him on the short really steep stuff, and was a little faster on the down hills, so we really pushed all day long. I'm so glad that we stopped for so long at the fire watch tower for lunch. On the way back I tried standing up on the pedals and my legs started cramping, but then we hit the steep windy roads into town and I flew down that hill chucking the bike into those corners.
I can't wait for summer in Oz, I'm definatly getting a bike!
Rest day today, so updating my blog. Neal and Julie-Ann have laptops and update theirs a lot more, I'm going to try link to their blogs too, they've got some cool pics, I hope they put them up.
For those of you that aren't climbers Neal is sitting across from me in the coffee shop working on his white Mac and drinking his mixed berry smoothie while making up a glossary, so I'll put a link to that up so you can translate some of those climbing terms :)
and gone exploring the Blue Mountains. The most popluar tourist attraction in the Blue mountains is the Three Sisters, unfortunatly I wasn't able to borrow a camera that day, so no pics, in a way I was glad, I felt less like a tourist and wasn't exploring through my camera lense. There are these three towers of rock at the end of this ridge with an amazing view. There was an Aboriginal man dressed up in his traditional clothing playing his Digiridoo, it was so cool looking out over Australia listening to this guy playing with all the tropical birds chirping as his quire.
I went on the Scenic Railway, worlds steepest railway (51 degrees) down into the rainforest
sheltered at the bottom of the cliff. Thanks for the advice Brian ;) Its some experience walking around the rainforest, you'll have to come see it for yourself, its worth it.
Next Day me and Neal decided to do something different, so we splashed out and rented some mountain bikes for the day, I don't think I've ever pushed myself so hard on a bike, even today when I stand up my legs argue with me! Its going to be fun climbing tomorrow. It was so good to be back on a mountain bike again we followed a fire road throught this forest along a ridge and the views were spectacular. Me and Neal were well matched, I thought he would kick my ass with endurance, but I still managed to power past him on the short really steep stuff, and was a little faster on the down hills, so we really pushed all day long. I'm so glad that we stopped for so long at the fire watch tower for lunch. On the way back I tried standing up on the pedals and my legs started cramping, but then we hit the steep windy roads into town and I flew down that hill chucking the bike into those corners.
I can't wait for summer in Oz, I'm definatly getting a bike!
Rest day today, so updating my blog. Neal and Julie-Ann have laptops and update theirs a lot more, I'm going to try link to their blogs too, they've got some cool pics, I hope they put them up.
For those of you that aren't climbers Neal is sitting across from me in the coffee shop working on his white Mac and drinking his mixed berry smoothie while making up a glossary, so I'll put a link to that up so you can translate some of those climbing terms :)
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