Blue Mountains, Tread Lightly, Sydney

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Today we left Sydney on a day trip to the blue mountains the birthplace of the eucalyptus tree. Where we met with Tim from Tread Lightly. tread lightly is a company that works with schools like Elon to help educate students on Ecotourism. during our scenic hike with Tim he told us how Sydney was formed by the gradual erosion of a plateau that started as roughly the size of Connecticut.  During our hike we stopped for lunch in a cave in the side of the mountain, as we sat there watching water drip out of the sandstone above us Tim told us that Australia’s unique geography and geology allows for there to be 10,000 waterfalls in the blue mountains without any of them having a water source like a lake that feeds them. A fact that I found more interesting was that the water that we were watching drip out of the rock was millions of years old having filtered through various layers of clay and sandstone on a journey that we were so lucky to witness and be a part of. After finishing lunch, we walked past a plaque that stated that Charles Darwin passed through that section of the Blue Mountains during his time in Australia. we concluded that section of the Blue Mountains with a walk next to one of the 10,000 Waterfalls. after our hike we took a short trip to see the three sisters a rock formation consisting of three pillars that jut out from a cliff side a little further into the Blue Mountains. Our day in the Blue Mountains concluded with meeting up with another member of Tread Lightly to learn more about Aboriginal Culture in that area. 

 

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