Katoomba – Leura – Mount Victoria

Got a great sleep in and enjoyed a leisurely start to the day. Decided it was time to head into the touristy part of Katoomba, and the lookout and walk to the Three Sisters. It was tourist city. There was no parking within a 15 minute walk and you had to pay everywhere for parking. I dropped Steve off to take the pics and I did 3 laps around the block to pick him up. Found the Aboriginal story of the Three Sisters.

The Three Sisters
There were once three beautiful sisters who fell in love with three brothers from anther clan who were not of their skin group and they were forbidden to marry. The girls had decided they were going to run off with the boys anyway. Their spiritual elder found out of their plan and decided to turn the girls into rock till it was over. The elders confronted the other skin group and a war broke out. The spiritual elder was killed before he could turn the stones back into the girls. The elders remaining after the war tried and tried and tried to turn the back, but to no avail. So they remained in stone.

the very busy tourist lookout

We then headed to Leura which appeared to have a very cute main street. The place was crazy with holiday makers and parking was difficult, but we enjoyed the tree-lined walk into town.

The place was full of great little shops, cafes, art galleries and lots of speciality shops. It was just a block but it still took us an hour or more to visit all the shops. All the cafes were totally full. We couldn’t believe it! We decided to head back to The Carrington for lunch. We enjoyed a fabulous lunch and then headed up to Mount Victoria. Another gorgeous little town. We found the Mt Vic Flicks and enjoyed seeing a film in a cute old family cinema. They had really comfortable old deco chairs and a candy bar located in the middle of the cinema. Their mugs of tea, coffee or hot chocolate are $1 each. Everything else is reasonably priced and the admission is just $10. I have to say the screen isn’t much bigger than Kev’s projection unit, but the atmosphere is great. We saw Hunger which was about the 1981 Irish No Clothes, No Wash Prison Strike. It was an amazing film, but one that shouldn’t be seen without company. Most people stayed to watch the next movie which was The Duchess. A much less depressing film.

Had a nice quiet park in the street around the corner from the cinema. It was right between the train line and the fire brigade. Luckily they weren’t called out, so it was a relatively quiet night. There is a great train service to Sydney from Mount Victoria. I think it’s a 2 hour trip.