Southern Highlands

Sunday, January 27, 2013

We went into the southern highlands today. The kids wanted my parents to go up McQuarie Pass. It is a really curvy road up the escarpment that has a couple of three point turns.  On the passenger side, you can look down the edge of the cliff.  Part way up, we went into the clouds.  It looked really neat.

We stopped in Robertson at the Cheese Factory. We looked around for a while. Adam and Dagan found some comfy chairs, and Dagan said they were "chillaxin". We went into Moss Vale next. Adam showed my parents where the offices and manufacturing facility for the company he works for are located. They were glad to see it. The kids not so much.

The "girls" at one of the lookouts.

The clouds over the escarpment

Don't they look a little eerie?

Afterwards, we took my parents to Fitzroy Falls.  There was not as much water flowing today as before due to the lack of rain, but it was still pretty.  The escarpment was partially covered with clouds.  It looked eerie.  The kids and I took my mom for a short hike.  They wanted her to go down the rock steps and get to the bridge.  We were lucky and were able to see a lyrebird along the way.  Adam and my dad went back to the visitor center and listened to a man play the didgeridoo.

Our happy camper

One of the sets of rock steps

Me and my mom

Mom and Dad

We finally got a picture of the 6 of us.

The Knight's Tower

My dad, mom and Adam walking on the structure.

When Adam was jogging it would really shake.

Everyone was hungry at this point, so we backtracked to Robertson's Pie Shop.  We had savory pies for lunch with hot chips and some sweet pies for dessert.  Then we went to the Illawara Treetop Fly Walk.  My dad got a ride down to the start of the walkway.  The rest of us met him there.  My parents enjoyed the view and seeing the trees close up.  Dagan still didn't want to walk to the end of the cantilever.  It moves just a little too much for him.  When we got back to the building there was an echidna.  Now we have seen two in the wild.

The boys taking the courtesy car back to the top.

Adam took Dagan out on the cantilever.

This is as far as Dagan wanted to go.

The echidna

View from the Knight's Tower

My parents had asked Adam if they could go back to see his completed office, so we went back after our walks through the rainforest.  Adam had a little work to complete, so we hung out, played hangman and relaxed while he completed his job.  We had dinner at a place near his office before heading home.  We had a jam packed fun day!