The BLUIES

So this past weekend we (the Arcadia group) went on our little excursion to the Blue Mountains, and it was amazing. Turns out, there was a heat wave this weekend, which meant that in the Blue Mountains, it was perfect. On Saturday, we learned how to throw boomerangs (deceptively difficult, but quite rewarding too), and did a bushwalk to some really beautiful views of the Blue Mountains.

For those who are wondering, the Blue Mountains were in fact blue, the when the sun refracts off of the eucalyptus mist that is released by its leaves, there is a soft, deep blue that bathes the mountains. Its the kind of thing you don't see right in front of you, but when looking down the valley, it was quite apparent. I also bought an AWESOME hat, because not only does it look great, but i think it'll help a lot when I go camping in the outback in a few weeks.

This is me, with my new hat, in front of the blue mountains. You can see the blue a little bit, once the sun set a bit more it got a lot stronger.


On Sunday, we stayed in the Blue mountains, but went ABSEILING! I didn't know what that meant either, apparently, that's what australians call repelling. We started on some medium sized boulders, just to get the technique down, and then repelled down an actual huge cliff. Like the really big cliff you imagine when you think of people repelling.

This is me just going down one of the training abseils. It looks big, because it was. I couldn't get pictures of myself going down the big one because there wasn't anyone at the bottom i could give my camera to.


I did however, get a picture of the group leaders setting the big cliff up for us, it gives you a good idea of just how far down this one was.