So I went to the blue mountains, i've heard that they're beautiful. Unfortunately for me I couldn't see for the cloud and torrential rain. I arrived there on thursday afternoon and headed for the tourist information centre. The weather board there said: Today- Showers, Tomorrow- Storms, Saturday- Storms. DOH!!!. However I thought while in Rome and all that... so I decided to go walking anyway. It was dry when I set off so I thought it wasn't going to be all that bad... WRONG!. I walked for about 3 hours on the first day, it was getting fairly dark and was raining steadily so I thought I'd find a place to camp. After pithing the tent in the rain as quickly as I could I stashed most of my stuff inside and went to explore the area a bit. The rain just got heavier and the winds really picked up. I got back to the tent and was just hoping it would stand up to the weather. It chucked it down all night and was still raining when i got up. I decided it would be silly to decamp in that weather so just did a circular walk from my tent. I had a really good walk even tho it rained all day and I couldn't really see anything. That night the weather got silly, the rain came down harder than ever and the winds got even stronger. In the morning I got up to find trees had been blown down across the path right near my tent and there was water everywhere. I decided I'd have to make a break to try to get back into town to the train station, so i stuffed my tent into its bag any way it would go and marched back to town. Consideing the path had been turned into a stream/waterfalls I made very quick time, covering the 13km back in just over 2 hours. I'm back in Sydney now and sadly have once again bought the weather with me. Also I have just heard on the news that 14 people had to be rescued in the blue mountains over the weekend! Not sure when I'll head north, the whole coast is still being battered by storms with many places having flooding problems. Looks like i'll have to make a break for byron bay in a few days. Hope everyone is well.
xx Matt xx
p.s Happy fathers day Dad!
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Sorry to hear about the weather and thanks for letting us know you are back okay. There have been some news reports about the storms so its good to hear from you.You were luck not to have a tree fall on your tent!! No real news this end,dad is at the allotment and I'm writing my final essay.Ever!!And that's a promise!!
Take care
Love m+d
cheers for the fathers day greetings. well done for surviving that lot, and I guess your tent stood up to the gales OK. Makes the problems of slugs eating the runner bean seeds seem small beer. Good luck with the East coast when you do set out.
love Dad
Glad to hear the tent stood up to all that bombardment! The further north we got, the hotter and sunnier it was so at least you're heading the right way. Mind you, making comparisons to East coast and West coast Aus is like saying it will be lovely in Moscow because the sun is out in London. Take care xxx
Hi babe
sorry 2 hear u got a little wet, the bath may hav done u good... lol
all here is good job goin really well and lovin it.
i booked my hols 2day goin 2 crypus so me hopes it dont rain there..
Take care
Loads of lovin
Becky xxx
Hey bro!
Sounds like you had a lucky escape! Hope the weather picks up soon. Any luck putting the karaoke videos on Youtube? I could do with a laugh!!!
XXXXXXX
Thanks for writing this.
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