road trip through the blue

A few weeks ago, on a foggy Saturday morning, we spontaneously decided to jump in the car and take a road trip through the Blue Mountains. We have been to the mountains before, but we'd never done the whole loop, and since the seasons are changing here and there is a hint of autumn in the air, we figured it would be a perfect day to take a drive in the Blue.

Some may think a spontaneous 8 hour road trip is not a fun idea, but it's one of our favourite ways to spend a day. And we were rewarded with some gorgeous views as the sun burned away the fog. It seemed like we had the whole place to ourselves. it had been raining for weeks, but the sun finally came out and everywhere was the smell of eucalyptus and pine and roses.

We stopped and bought a fresh baked apple pie at a roadside stand - which later turned out to be horrible tasting, but it sure smelled good! And we spent a good hour photographing an old frontier town, overrun with time and home to some of the biggest lizards I have ever seen. We wound our way through sleepy little towns like Kurrajong, Bilpin, Mt Tomah and Lithgow - where we stopped for some homemade burgers and hot chips in a little holeinthewall diner. We then looped back around to Leura, one of my favourite little tourist towns, where we stopped for ice cream before heading home. Great way to spend a day.