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| Brush Tailed Possum |
As we travelled north so the weather has improved, with nice sunny days, and clear, but still cold nights. The Jervis Bay area has some beautiful beaches and dramatic cliffs, and also offers whale watching - at this time of year the whales are migrating north to the warmer waters to breed and we spent several days enjoying the area, including camping by honeymoon beach - a small, almost circular sandy cove - walking along the dramatic cliffs, and crawling through a 10m long rock tunnel to a platform 30m above the crashing ocean.
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| Honeymoon Bay |
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| Humpback Whales |
We twice took a boat out to see the whales, the first time it was more of an adrenaline ride with 3m of swell and strong winds, but no whales. On the second attempt we were fortunate to have a pod of three whales come straight to towards the boat and the skipper had to reverse rapidly out of the way.
Skirting Sydney we headed inland to the Blue Mountains which offer some dramatic waterfalls - the Fitzroy falls dropping over 300m, and spectacular vistas across the deeply cut valleys from the sandstone escarpment around Katoomba.
There are numerous walking trails and lookouts giving different perspectives on the landscape. We spent time visiting a number of them before heading north through the Great Dividing Range and its beautiful varied scenery, with its dramatic autumn colours on the trees.
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| Pulpit Rock Lookout |
We eventually dropped back down towards the coast through Gloucester and picked up the Pacific Coast Highway to make faster progress north.
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| Queen Elizabeth Lookout |
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