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<\/a><\/span> Canyon View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
As they always do, the hike began at a parking lot. We set off into the bush and, taking the recommendation given to us, hiked the circular trail in a counter clockwise direction in order to save our knees from some killer steps to come.<\/p>\n
The trail steeply descended down the mountain side and wound its way to Empress falls, a beautiful cascade dropping 30 meters. as we got to the bottom we watched absailers dropping down through the cold waters that plunged into a deep pool. This time I managed to remember to bring my tripod so I was able to grab some slow shutter speed shots.<\/p>\n From the bottom of Empress falls the trail turned to follow along the cliff edge. Built in 1908, the National pass revealed itself to be one of the most beautiful trails we have ever hiked. Cliff walls hung over our heads and dropped away to our side. If there was every any particularly steep bits a railing was there to stop us from tipping over the edge. The trail followed along this way for several kilometers.<\/p>\n After about an hour and a half we rounded a corner to see the amazing Wentworth falls. This is a three tiered waterfall that plunges 187 Meters. That’s right, it’s huge! Being early fall there wasn’t a ton of water coming over the edge, but enough to still be pretty spectacular. The trail descends down to the base of the second tier, crosses over and then climbs a set of very steep steps carved into the stone. As we are starting our climb we could see people standing on the edge of the top looking down. Crazy!<\/p>\n After the hike we realized just how hot the day had become. We had run out of water about an hour before we completed the trek and were dying of thirst. When we got back to the parking lot the little cafeteria had closed for the day so we had to make a quick pitstop in the little town of Wentworth to rehydrate with some Poweraids. I don’t think any of us have ever downed a drink so fast.<\/p>\n On the way back into town we stopped by the famous Three Sisters which sits at the edge of the town of Katoomba. I liked this shot the best as it really shows just how big and beautiful the canyon is.<\/p>\n We were so glad that we added a couple days at the end of our trip for the Blue Mountains. It really is a spot of amazing natural beauty and one I would definitely return to on our next trip to Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not much more than an hour and a half outside of Sydney lie the Blue mountains. A hilly range by Canadian standards that aren’t really blue, but get the appearance from the way light reflects on the oils of eucalyptus leaves. When we were planning our trip to Australia we knew that we wanted to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhanni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
<\/span> Stepping stones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Empress falls – Upper falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Lower Empress falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Hugging the cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Looking up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Steep drop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Wentworth falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Wentworth falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Wentworth falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Watch your head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> Wentworth falls – tiny people at top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/a>
<\/span> The Three Sisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n