Blue Mts to Summer Bay

We arrived from Ayers Rock Connellan Airport into Sydney and caught the Air train into Central Station. Once there, we crossed the road to our accommodation, YHA Central. Which has to be noted, has been the best hostel, we have stayed at in Sydney. After we got settled and relaxed for a while, we went exploring up George's street. We ended up having dinner in Wagamama's and got a offer on dessert, 2 for 1.

Sunday Morning, it was 7.30 am start for the Blue Mountains tour, when we were collected outside our accommodation. First stop of the tour, was at the featherdale wildlife park, where we saw native Australian mammals and birds. This park is home to over 2,200 animals. We received a small cute koala souvenir. From here, Steve our tour guide, brought us to a park and showed us how to throw a boomerang.

Before lunch, we entered the National Park, and stopped off at the Wentworth Falls, which was a nice and short stroll with beautiful views. We stopped for lunch in a quaint village called Leura, which is nicknamed the garden village. From here we went the short journey towards Katoomba, which is the chief town of the city of the Blue Mountains. It's in this area, where we stopped at the echo point and saw the famous Three Sisters.

 

We all hopped back on the bus, and made the journey towards Scenic world, where we got to Scenic Skyway, Scenicsender and the Steepest Railway in the world at 52 degrees inclined. Scenic world was quite an experience, especially doing the railway in both directions. After we left Scenic world, we made the journey towards the Homebush Bay ferry terminal, stopping off at the Sydney 2000 Olympic site. We cruised down the Parramata River into Sydney harbour, where the tour finished. It was a tiring day but worth it.

8am the following morning, we got up, packed and checked-out and made the short stroll up to Railway Square, to catch the L90 bus towards Palm Beach, the spiritual and geographical location of Summer Bay. The bus journey itself, takes approx about 90 mins from Railway Square. Once we arrived, the first port of call, of course was Palm Beach, the location of some of the shows most famous storylines. From the beach, we strolled over to the surf club where the was amazing views of the beach. We decided it was time for brunch, and made our way to the Boat house, which is the location of The Pier Diner in the show. The food, drink and service were ace, although on the tad expensive side. It was nice beautiful day, so it was a pleasant to eat outside by the pier. After brunch,  we saw the location of Alf's bait shop and other locations featured in the show.
                        
Once we finally got back into Sydney, we caught the train to Mascot, and walked the short journey to our hotel, Formule 1 hotel.  The hotel was located about ten mins walk to Domestic Terminal 2. We ended up ordering pizza delivery, as it was cash only, we made the trip to the airport for ATM, however the ironic thing is, that the delivery man had arrived to our room before we had. We relaxed watching Doctor Who whilst having the takeaway.

The following morning, we got up and made the short trip to the airport and boarded our Jetstar flight to the Gold Coast, which departed at 8.55 am.