Yulefest - Christmas in July

Three sisters in the Blue Mountains

Last weekend we went away for the weekend to celebrate Yulefest in the Blue Mountains. It is basically Christmas in July when it is winter here. And this is where we celebrated it and here you can get a feel what we were in for.
Besides having a great Christmas dinner it was also my first visit to the Blue Mountains.
Even though it is no more then 90 minutes from where we live, I have only driven through it once when we went to Mudgee last year. Caroline had already been before. And because it was my first time we did the big tour.

It was so windy the water came back up Wentworth Falls

Wentworth Falls and the Three Sisters on one day and a walk around the Three Sisters and Scenic World (the worlds steepest railroad) the next.

On our last day we visited the Jenolan Caves. The best I have seen in Australia so far (the other one being Capricorn Cave).

Lucas Cave

the Devil's Coachhouse

We choose to take a guided tour through the Lucas Cave and while we waited for the Lucas Cave tour we walked through the self-guided Nettle Cave and around the man made Blue Lake (because of the dissolved Calcite in the water, breaking the light, the water appears blue)

The Blue Lake
(how do they come up with a name like that)