Blue Mountains

Booked a tour but had to meet the bus at a very unsociable hour.
10:00 - Nepean river, tranquille.
11:00 - Flat Rock outside Wentworth. Long stare across deep verdant valleys, virtiginous.
11:30 - Scenic World - winla, meni, genado and dave. Cable car across katomba falls and another down into thick silent shadowy rain forest and derelect coal mine.  Three lyre birds spotted, displaying with tail feathers and lolloping warbles.  Twenty minute boardwalk back to the. steepest railway in the world which hauls us living cargo backwards up the near verticle cliff and then through it to our exit.
13:00 - lunch at Leura, not bad, not great.  Lovely little village
15:00 - Views that leave us speechless over Wentworth falls and tastes of bitter nut and sweet leaves from our guide and local vegetation.
15:30 - Rock engraving of a kangaroo apprx. 500 years old. 17:00 - Short stop in Olympic Park, massive open vistas with many people but sparsely scattered and enormous stadia like gounded intergalactic space craft. It's how I imagine Canberra. Then down tot wharf for an hours criuse back to Circle Quay. This reveals just how contorted the banks of the river really are as it approaches and retreats in repeated modulations and all the time housed with with river siders. Of the cities I've seen, Sydney is is defined most by its water.