I remember a story of the Scenic railway in the days when there was an operator sitting at the back. A women sitting at the rear asked "where will I go if the cable breaks?". The operator responded "I think you know that better than me". She then said "What do you mean", to which the operator said "you know what type of life you have led!"
We had one growing in our yard that we bought from Mount Anan (sp?) Reserve. It was an amazing tree with white sap and pretty little cones - really did feel like a living dinosaur! It was growing so well, but during the horror bushfire season it died, sadly.
That group of 3 rock formations at the beginning is known as "The Three Sisters". I am 72 now and I can remember being on that Scenic railway as a Kid. Back then it was not enclosed and you sat on wooden benches. The bottom of it was the start of some great hikes through some beautiful terrain. I live West of there now, and travel through there whenever I have to go to Sydney.
I'm 71 and used to holiday regularly at either Katoomba or Blackheath. My cousin and I walked down the Golden Stairs on a few occasions and would walk around the valley to catch a free ride up the railway as there was no ticket collectors at the bottom then. Did one hike to the Ruined Castle rock formation once, past the landslide. It was a longer trek than I thought it would be but we always carried ample water and food.
I'm 40 and even when I was a around 12 they still had the open scenic railway with the little benches! It was definitely cooler back then than what it is now, but good to see they still have it!
When I was in high school we had a retreat at a hotel in Katoomba. When we went to see The Three Sisters, I walked down the stairs to the bottom of the valley in a maxi skirt! And back up too.
I live in The Blue Mountains . I was always drawn here . I was adopted and could not understand the " pull " . Now I know . My blood family is from here . At home , finally .
the scenic railway, as mentioned, the steepest railway in the world, was originally built in the late 1800s to haul coal up from the valley where it was mined, you can still see the mines at the bottom which where dug back under the cliff under Katoomba. The original carriages to carry passengers where built around 1945 for tourists.
miners travelled to & from work on the railway too. I was looking for a comment on it's origins, glad you made it :) Origins explains why it's a "slow roller coaster"
@@cool386vintagetechnology6 I have also travelled in the open cars and wooden seats, also the ones with wire cages, back in the 60's 70's 80's, with the wind rushing thru your hair (not that I have any these days ), not the same now with glassed covered cars
Well I'm happily living in the Blue Mountains and just LOVE it. I've had a couple of American visitors here and they were very impressed. Love taking visitors to the Megalong Valley for a Devonshire tea ...
The main point of the naming of the Blue Maintains is the blue hue given off from the eucalyptus trees. The mountains look blue from a distance away and as you look across the valley from the look outs.
America has the Grand Canyon., we have the Blue Mountain. which is ten times larger and a 250 million year old forest to boot. IT REALLY IS A MAJESTIC forest
You do know that we have second largest canyon in the world it’s actually wider than the grand canyon through not as deep and it just stunning.. it’s the Capertee Valley in the Lithgow Region.. 🧐😊🇦🇺
The Blue Mountains is the world’s largest wet canyon system with over 800 canyons and also forms the world’s widest canyon. Charles Darwin studied it and there is a walk in his name. 😊
Not only do we have the Blue Mountains, we also have a canyon that is bigger than the Grand Canyon in at least one dimension. It’s called Capertee Valley and many Aussies haven’t even heard of it and it’s absolutely beautiful!
The view from the lookout over looking the valley is spectacular. I grew up in Kandos and still live there, and it still takes my breath away every time I drive past it.
I hour from Sydney CBD, a world away from the inner city noise! The first colony's access to rich farming lands, our haven of peace and nature, a place to just breathe freely! ❤️
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The Blue Mountains is majestic a wonderland of natural beauty, serenity and ancient legends. The introduction showed "The Three Sisters" a famous indigenous story is behind their name. You'll enjoy the research, so I'll leave it to you.
The Blue Mountains were my home for 7 years in Lawson which is mid mountain. We bushwalked every weekend as our home was on the edge of the bush. Spectacular place to live and visit, so much diversity of nature. It should be on your bucket list.
Yep, a great place to hike and explore. Once you get away from the touristy bits that this video shows the place is bloody beautiful. Down in the canyons, along the creeks etc spent heaps of time wandering around the area.
Yes, the Blue Mountains are part of greater metropolitan Sydney. The base suburbs are about an hour drive from the city ( depending on the traffic lol )
They really are spectacular. I use to live in the Glasshouse mountains in qld, the indigenous peoples have a wonderful tale on how they were formed, maybe you'd like to check them out Ryan, they all have their own names with Mt Tibrogargen as the father 🤙🇦🇺
Once upon a time the first settlers didn’t think there was a way over the blue mountains, until Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson found a way over in 1813 and discovered a way over.
Aborigines were crossing the Great Dividing Range in that area for thousands of years. B, W & L should only be acknowledged as the first Europeans to do so.
@@jennyhenningham4100 Even if you knew the names of the first *Aboriginals to cross, they be deceased, so you wouldn't be allowed to mention their names. I'm sure most can tell loz was talking about colonial history. The ones born there would have crossed it like sherpas over the Himalayas, maybe many times a year. The Europeans probably found a track worn in by the Aboriginals in all honesty, sometimes it got a mention sometimes it didn't
@@coolhandluke1503 The mistake the early European explorers were making was to try and follow the rivers. Most of them end in cliffs with waterfalls. Once they decided to keep to the ridgetops, they found a way over. And yes, the indigenous people of the area would have known that.
I live on the other side of the big valley. There are two main roads going over the mountains from Sydney. The Great Western Highway that has all the towns of Katoomba, Blackheath and Springwood along it. Then there is Bells Line of Road where i live that has basically no-one. It is a truly spectacular place that i take for granted too often, nice to see it through the eyes of someone experiencing it for the first time.
My absolute happy place was camping in the Blue Gum Forest(Acacia Flats campground)which was a 3hr walk from Blackheath station down Perrys lookdown onto the Grose Valley floor, which was at the bottom of that lookout on the video. Absolutely pristine wilderness untouched by humans except for the fittest hikers & campers. Waking up at dawn to watch the sunrise over the cliffs with so much birdsong is a memory I'll carry forever.
This needed to have some explanation so that he knew what he was looking at, eg the Three Sisters. The last time I was there, the wasn't any sides on the cars. Also the blue haze that hangs over the area, caused by the eucalypts,is a beautiful thing.
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name. Wiki It runs from melbourne all the way up the east coast
I live in Western Sydney and I'm lucky enough to have the beautiful Blue Mountains as my backyard I've spent many happy hours hiking and exploring the mountains as well as showing visitors, it really is absolutely stunning
we moved to Katoomba 6 weeks before the Granville Train Disaster and I can still remember mum saying that day you could shoot a shotgun up the main street and not hit anyone, as the train was a Blue Mountains train starting out at Mount Victoria. I think it is something you should react to Ryan, we call it the day of the roses.
So The Blue Mountains are part of The Great Dividing Range, which is a mountainous range that runs from Queensland to Victoria (I believe). The opening shot was of The Three Sisters in Katoomba. My husband and I started our relationship there at sunrise and he proposed there at sunset. We now live in The Blue Mountains and you mentioned living on that cliff in the beginning of the video, well, we have a smaller version of that cliff, and two waterfalls and a cliff in our literal backyard. We are so blessed. The scenic railway is the steepest railway in the southern hemisphere or the world…I can’t remember but it’s one or the other. There you go, in the world. It’s more than the Wollemi National Park, it’s a series of National Parks, valleys, ridges and villages. There’s sandstone cliff and outcrops, lush forest, and it’s home to lots of native species or flora and fauna, including the floral emblem of NSW and the NSW Government, the Waratah. This video only barely grazes over the beauty and character of this amazing place. There’s so, so, so much more to see. Even from my front door, I’ve had red belly black snakes, ring-rail possums, Boobook Owls, countless species of birds and lizards… and that’s before you venture out onto the grounds of this place. It’s called The Blue Mountains because the large number of eucalyptus trees here, emit a haze that looks blue from a distance. If you ever do come to NSW, at least set aside one day for a day trip to The Blue Mountains. It’s one of the most unique landscapes you’ll ever see. Even going to my local Coles is quite the beautiful view of The Jamison Valley. I ride up to Katoomba and ride along Cliff Drive and it never ceases to blow my mind with its beauty.
My parents lived in the Blue Mts for a long time and we always visited there as Sydney people. I have family history with the railway line. Australia has a lot of mountains, part of the Great Dividing Range. In Primary school we learnt about the Blue Mts explorers and towns are named after them
My brother in law held his newborn son up on the edge of that rock you called Pride Rock! I couldn’t watch and had to walk back to the car! Definitely a beautiful part of the world!
There are so many great walks and canyons. The bush is so thick it makes it difficult to find people when they need to search for missing or injured hikers.
I live in the Blue Mountains. There are many magical hiking trails in this region. I usually recommend visiting Govett's Leap in Blackheath, which is about 10 kilometres west of Katoomba. Beautiful area, sometimes it snows here in Winter.
Both of my parents were born and raised in Lithgow and my mum told me that she used to go on the Zig Zag railway to Sydney. My grandfather worked in the coal mines
I went on the scenic railway back in the late 1970s when the carriages were open. Also remember watching the motorsports at Katoomba's old Catalina Park racetrack on the TV. It was one of those old school extremely dangerous racetracks.
I used to work at the scenic railway when i lived in Katoomba. It was an amazing place to live and go to work in. One of the best jobs with the best views in the world.
We rode the Blue Mountains scenic railway when my daughter was 5. She slipped as we were getting on and somehow fell head first between the platform and the train. I did one of those "dad saves" you see in videos and stuck out my hand and managed to grab her ankle just before she would have hit the ground and pulled her back up. She was a bit shaken but unhurt and enjoyed the ride (on the inside of the train!).
Ryan, you should look up the history of the scenic railway. These days tourists have it good with the modern covered scenic railway. The first time I went on it, the cars were open and the places where you could hang on were limited. At the bottom there were 2 railway buffers, and beyond that there was a sheer drop of quiet some distance.
The Blue Mountains are a section of the Great Dividing Range - which runs 3,500 km from North Queensland to Victoria and is roughly 250km wide. A truly beautiful range.
We used to live right near Kurrajong, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. The whole region is beautiful. It might not be near Sydney beaches but folk there are pretty chilled I can assure you. We moved an hour north of Sydney for career reasons but still own our property there (it's rented out) and would move back into it in a heartbeat if circumstances changed.
A collection of my family live in the Blue Mountains. My ancestors settled a lot of land at the base of the mountains. I started school in a town about an hours drive from some of the scenery you saw. I'm now 400 kilometres away surrounded by sheep. :)
There is a decent hike called the "six foot track" from Jenolan Caves to Katoomba 46 kms or 29 miles in your units. Recommended 3 days, did it between Christmas and New Year period a few years back in two days two nights. There is also quite a few enjoyable shorter walks/hikes to various waterfalls and lookouts throughout the mountains, each of various grades.
At one stage, you say that the Blue Mountains, and in particular that Valley, would not be known outside Australia. Very true, and something that many Australians themselves may not know is that in a month or 2 (or 12 perhaps) the water you see here may be coming out of a tap in a Sydney home. The water flows into a creek, and from there to a small river. In due course, that river is a tributary of the water in a dam \. In turn, that is the major water supply for Greater Sydney.
I remember going on the scenic railway when a kid (64 now). Definitely not as safety conscious back then. Was definitely scarey back then when in the front seat, especially going reverse back up the hill lol
The three sisters walk is wild! In parts there’s a path that no bigger then 2 people wide and stairs the same and pretty steep. And the fence is so short you feel like you could go over it easy and fall a thousand foot to yiur death lol beautiful place though
Blue mountains is really a great place to live. I moved away for a year and missed the mountains so much I had to come back. Definitely worth a visit if you're in Sydney. Highly recommend the Elysian bar in Katoomba, amazing views and tasty cocktails.
After settlement in 1788, the Blue Mountains were believed to be impassable. It was 25 years before a route crossing the mountains was discovered, in 1813. It was considered a huge achievement, and opened up the interior for the settlers. The modern road across the Blue Mountains plus the railway line still mostly follows that 1813 route, and the City of The Blue Mountains is mostly a long, narrow series of settlements along the route. At Katoomba you look out across a canyon that is not as deep as the Grand Canyon, but is one kilometer wider.
There's also Blue Mountains in the Appalachians! " . . . the southernmost formation of the Appalachians and are part of the larger Kittatinny Ridge that extends into northern New Jersey."
@@overworlder Ours are called the Blue Mountains from all the eucalyptus trees which are full of eucalyptus oil which slowly rises into the atmosphere and in the diffused light make the mountains look blue from a distance.
I love the Blue Mountains and try to get there as often as possible. Fun facts: *That train was originally how they carried coal out of the valley. *they did build a roller coaster at that location but when doing safety tests found that it was too dangerous so they never opened that ride, but you can still see sections of the track l Pl
I have only visited once a long time time ago when I lived in Perth and didn't really do any of the tourist stuff there, just some walking trails. And yes, the shade of the leaves of the eucalyptus trees does make the scenario look blue as the sunlight and clouds shift.
You might find the Glasshouse Mountains interesting. They're the cores of long-extinct volcanoes, and are often used as challenge climbs by rock climbers. They're in the Great Dividing Range, and their part is north and west of Brisbane. If you already know "The Sunshine Coast" area north of Brisbane, they're due west of there.
That was very cool Ryan thanks, I love the fact you suddenly said I wonder how many people die and google it, lol I do the same😅. That scenic railway, I had no idea it was as crazy at the start…I can just imagine getting on expecting to have a lovely quiet time then “Ahhhh” that explains why that woman was holding on as soon as she got in lol 😂
The Blue Mountains are beautiful and diverse, the three stacks are known as the Three Sisters. It’s in NSW, west of Sydney. It has a large forested area as well.
Just so you understand Ryan, when you looked at the map trying to work it out the blue mountains run parallel to the east coast of Australia almost the entire length of Australia kind of like the appalachians and equally as beautiful and unique
Hi mate, weird you are reacting to the Blue Mountains as I'm currently trying to help a friend get his financials together to buy a bargain house up there at a place named Lawson. It' s such a good buy, but it doesn't look like he can afford it currently. It used to snow up there in winter but they havent had snow in years now I'm told due to climate change. If I was in a little bit better of a financial position, I would grab it as you can get the fast train down into sydney from there for daily work etc. as many people do. If you want to move here this woul d be a good house for you!
The flooding of the Burragorang valley is why the Blue Mts doesn't get as much snow since the 1960's, since the body of water stabilises the temperature. There was some snow on the western parts this year. As for commuting to Sydney for work on the train; I did that for 27 years and ended up with just about every airborne illness imaginable.
check out the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains, I think it is the largest and oldest caves in Australia. Not sure but because Australia is the oldest continent i would think this would make them the oldest caves in the world?
"because Australia is the oldest continent i would think this would make them the oldest caves in the world?" That assumes that the caves are as old as the continent. The claim about the oldest continent assumes a naturalistic view of history.
@ me too. I was in “The Riff” for 43 years to the day, until last year when I moved up the mountains. I love my Penrith and I love my mountain home. I joke that Penrith has three degrees of separation instead of the usual 6
I had a friend who - No sorry i wont say If someone reading this ever feels like your life is hopeless, please reach out to someone in your life you are worth it! You mentioned at 2:30 about a possibility and it made me remember a harsh thing that happened Please please, you are worth it
Another one from Penrith!! And yes, sadly, I think a lot of people from our region do… take their final curtain call there. Thank you for encouraging people to seek help
I live in Penrith the start of the mountains i remember going there as a kid to the 3 sisters and riding the old train down the mountain in open carriages and the old cable car going over the valley was fun times have a look at pics of them Ryan see the difference .
you need to look into that steep train at end, lots of history around it and like you mentioned has a record which is kinda cool, I've been on it a few times in my 50 odd years, was wood when I was a kid, slowly had improvements/upgrades to make it safe and enjoyable, you are almost standing upright when going on it
I remember a story of the Scenic railway in the days when there was an operator sitting at the back. A women sitting at the rear asked "where will I go if the cable breaks?". The operator responded "I think you know that better than me". She then said "What do you mean", to which the operator said "you know what type of life you have led!"
Ryan came so close too discovering the JurassicTree ....the Wollemi Pine 👍👍
We had one growing in our yard that we bought from Mount Anan (sp?) Reserve. It was an amazing tree with white sap and pretty little cones - really did feel like a living dinosaur! It was growing so well, but during the horror bushfire season it died, sadly.
@@Erizedd I had one many years ago in a pot indoors ,very cool tree.need too buy another one. would be a cool Bonsai tree.
That group of 3 rock formations at the beginning is known as "The Three Sisters". I am 72 now and I can remember being on that Scenic railway as a Kid. Back then it was not enclosed and you sat on wooden benches. The bottom of it was the start of some great hikes through some beautiful terrain. I live West of there now, and travel through there whenever I have to go to Sydney.
I'm 71 and used to holiday regularly at either Katoomba or Blackheath. My cousin and I walked down the Golden Stairs on a few occasions and would walk around the valley to catch a free ride up the railway as there was no ticket collectors at the bottom then. Did one hike to the Ruined Castle rock formation once, past the landslide. It was a longer trek than I thought it would be but we always carried ample water and food.
I'm 40 and even when I was a around 12 they still had the open scenic railway with the little benches! It was definitely cooler back then than what it is now, but good to see they still have it!
When I was in high school we had a retreat at a hotel in Katoomba.
When we went to see The Three Sisters, I walked down the stairs to the bottom of the valley in a maxi skirt!
And back up too.
the 4 sisters according to First Nations people actually, the 4th little bump is an intergral part of their story about the formation of those sisters
So nice to see something other than Sydney or a beach being shown to represent Australia.
The look on your face was priceless Ryan! We do live in a beautiful country!
I did a 3 day hike through the Blue Mountains on a track called the Six Foot Track from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves and it was magnificent!
I live in The Blue Mountains . I was always drawn here . I was adopted and could not understand the " pull " . Now I know . My blood family is from here . At home , finally .
Sue... My great grandfather was a Monckton. He road for 3 years with 'Thunderbolt' the bushranger. 😉
@jemor2143 that would be William Monckton . ...apparently my ( adopted ) father's family .
I was born in Katoomba and raised in Lithgow. So this is my country, and its unique in Australia.
Lucky you. 🥰
In in Penrith
Well said Aussie, we are unique we have it all and we have to look after our beautiful big island home ❤️
My Dad's ancestors lived around there. My g grandfather started work at Wallerawang Stn
@@Fiona-zc6oz I worked at Wang power station myself.lol
the scenic railway, as mentioned, the steepest railway in the world, was originally built in the late 1800s to haul coal up from the valley where it was mined, you can still see the mines at the bottom which where dug back under the cliff under Katoomba. The original carriages to carry passengers where built around 1945 for tourists.
I was fortunate to travel in those open cars. The modern tourists don't know what they're missing.
miners travelled to & from work on the railway too.
I was looking for a comment on it's origins, glad you made it :) Origins explains why it's a "slow roller coaster"
@@cool386vintagetechnology6 I have also travelled in the open cars and wooden seats, also the ones with wire cages, back in the 60's 70's 80's, with the wind rushing thru your hair (not that I have any these days ), not the same now with glassed covered cars
@@mehere8038 yes the miners also travelled on the cars, there was a replica/maybe real carriage at the bottom many years ago
Years ago the train just had seats with no sides coming down. It was like a mining train.
I was disappointed riding on it years later and it wasn't as sketchy as it was in my youth. 😆
That speaker sounds like it must be the only thing left from the original train, that southpark skit was spot on😆
Well I'm happily living in the Blue Mountains and just LOVE it. I've had a couple of American visitors here and they were very impressed. Love taking visitors to the Megalong Valley for a Devonshire tea ...
The main point of the naming of the Blue Maintains is the blue hue given off from the eucalyptus trees. The mountains look blue from a distance away and as you look across the valley from the look outs.
America has the Grand Canyon., we have the Blue Mountain. which is ten times larger and a 250 million year old forest to boot. IT REALLY IS A MAJESTIC forest
We also have land mass from the grand canyon down in Tasmania
The blue mountains also has a grand canyon and it's stunning 😁
You do know that we have second largest canyon in the world it’s actually wider than the grand canyon through not as deep and it just stunning.. it’s the Capertee Valley in the Lithgow Region.. 🧐😊🇦🇺
@@aussiekit9172i didn't! Wider than the Grand Canyon? I've been there & it's huge. Wow! I shall google it.Thanx!
@aussiekit9172 I didn't know that. But it's pretty cool I'll have to make a trek out there one day
The Blue Mountains is the world’s largest wet canyon system with over 800 canyons and also forms the world’s widest canyon. Charles Darwin studied it and there is a walk in his name. 😊
The Blue Mountains can get bloody cold in winter time. The scenery is very haunting.
Not only do we have the Blue Mountains, we also have a canyon that is bigger than the Grand Canyon in at least one dimension. It’s called Capertee Valley and many Aussies haven’t even heard of it and it’s absolutely beautiful!
My parents had a property at Capertee and a house at Glen Davis
The view from the lookout over looking the valley is spectacular. I grew up in Kandos and still live there, and it still takes my breath away every time I drive past it.
I hour from Sydney CBD, a world away from the inner city noise! The first colony's access to rich farming lands, our haven of peace and nature, a place to just breathe freely! ❤️
yes its so sexual , my brother looks like a calvin klein model but is a pro boxer i want to feel him in me but know he hugged me i bodybuild yeah i love my brothers
The Blue Mountains is majestic a wonderland of natural beauty, serenity and ancient legends. The introduction showed "The Three Sisters" a famous indigenous story is behind their name. You'll enjoy the research, so I'll leave it to you.
4 sisters according to the Indigenous story & many of them get really upset about the "3" sisters white version
The first one is in Katoomba. It’s huge with the tourists. It’s so beautiful here.
The Blue Mountains were my home for 7 years in Lawson which is mid mountain. We bushwalked every weekend as our home was on the edge of the bush. Spectacular place to live and visit, so much diversity of nature. It should be on your bucket list.
Hey Ryan, the Blue Mountains deserves a much longer video than 8 mins!
Yep, a great place to hike and explore. Once you get away from the touristy bits that this video shows the place is bloody beautiful. Down in the canyons, along the creeks etc spent heaps of time wandering around the area.
The Scenic Railway is nothing short of absolutely terrifying!!!!
Please come to Australia, look me up and I'll take you on a guided tour.
Blue Mountains are beautiful
Yes, the Blue Mountains are part of greater metropolitan Sydney. The base suburbs are about an hour drive from the city ( depending on the traffic lol )
The Blue Mts are part of Sydney except when infrastructure has to be paid for, then we're 'regional'.
He's FINALLY doing my recommendation, no shout out though.
no info...just photography.
This is my back door step as I'm at Penrith. Go the mighty Panthers 👌😎
I grew up in Regentville, I have followed the mighty Panthers since they entered the competition in 1967.
Will you miss Luai? Time will tell
My Dad was born there. Grew up in those old terrace houses
Me too. Panthers are the best. Proud to be a Penrith grandma. 🇦🇺
I’m a proud Riffian myself!
They really are spectacular. I use to live in the Glasshouse mountains in qld, the indigenous peoples have a wonderful tale on how they were formed, maybe you'd like to check them out Ryan, they all have their own names with Mt Tibrogargen as the father 🤙🇦🇺
Once upon a time the first settlers didn’t think there was a way over the blue mountains, until Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson found a way over in 1813 and discovered a way over.
Aboriginal people had been trekking across the Blue Mountains for tens of thousands of years befor 1813.
Aborigines were crossing the Great Dividing Range in that area for thousands of years. B, W & L should only be acknowledged as the first Europeans to do so.
Just found out that one of my great great great grandfather's worked for one of these explorers near Bathurst. Actually a convict assigned to him
@@jennyhenningham4100 Even if you knew the names of the first *Aboriginals to cross, they be deceased, so you wouldn't be allowed to mention their names. I'm sure most can tell loz was talking about colonial history. The ones born there would have crossed it like sherpas over the Himalayas, maybe many times a year. The Europeans probably found a track worn in by the Aboriginals in all honesty, sometimes it got a mention sometimes it didn't
@@coolhandluke1503 The mistake the early European explorers were making was to try and follow the rivers. Most of them end in cliffs with waterfalls. Once they decided to keep to the ridgetops, they found a way over. And yes, the indigenous people of the area would have known that.
I live on the other side of the big valley. There are two main roads going over the mountains from Sydney. The Great Western Highway that has all the towns of Katoomba, Blackheath and Springwood along it. Then there is Bells Line of Road where i live that has basically no-one. It is a truly spectacular place that i take for granted too often, nice to see it through the eyes of someone experiencing it for the first time.
My absolute happy place was camping in the Blue Gum Forest(Acacia Flats campground)which was a 3hr walk from Blackheath station down Perrys lookdown onto the Grose Valley floor, which was at the bottom of that lookout on the video. Absolutely pristine wilderness untouched by humans except for the fittest hikers & campers. Waking up at dawn to watch the sunrise over the cliffs with so much birdsong is a memory I'll carry forever.
This needed to have some explanation so that he knew what he was looking at, eg the Three Sisters. The last time I was there, the wasn't any sides on the cars. Also the blue haze that hangs over the area, caused by the eucalypts,is a beautiful thing.
❤the first pictures are called "The three Sisters" & is part of a dreamtime story of the aboriginals of the area. I love it there❤
The Blue Mountains are great. Not just because they’re indescribably beautiful, but they’re so close to Sydney.
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name.
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It runs from melbourne all the way up the east coast
I live in Western Sydney and I'm lucky enough to have the beautiful Blue Mountains as my backyard I've spent many happy hours hiking and exploring the mountains as well as showing visitors, it really is absolutely stunning
welcome to my home as a kid in the 70's, we were never home and always exploring and getting up to mischief.
we moved to Katoomba 6 weeks before the Granville Train Disaster and I can still remember mum saying that day you could shoot a shotgun up the main street and not hit anyone, as the train was a Blue Mountains train starting out at Mount Victoria. I think it is something you should react to Ryan, we call it the day of the roses.
So The Blue Mountains are part of The Great Dividing Range, which is a mountainous range that runs from Queensland to Victoria (I believe). The opening shot was of The Three Sisters in Katoomba. My husband and I started our relationship there at sunrise and he proposed there at sunset. We now live in The Blue Mountains and you mentioned living on that cliff in the beginning of the video, well, we have a smaller version of that cliff, and two waterfalls and a cliff in our literal backyard. We are so blessed. The scenic railway is the steepest railway in the southern hemisphere or the world…I can’t remember but it’s one or the other. There you go, in the world. It’s more than the Wollemi National Park, it’s a series of National Parks, valleys, ridges and villages. There’s sandstone cliff and outcrops, lush forest, and it’s home to lots of native species or flora and fauna, including the floral emblem of NSW and the NSW Government, the Waratah. This video only barely grazes over the beauty and character of this amazing place. There’s so, so, so much more to see. Even from my front door, I’ve had red belly black snakes, ring-rail possums, Boobook Owls, countless species of birds and lizards… and that’s before you venture out onto the grounds of this place. It’s called The Blue Mountains because the large number of eucalyptus trees here, emit a haze that looks blue from a distance. If you ever do come to NSW, at least set aside one day for a day trip to The Blue Mountains. It’s one of the most unique landscapes you’ll ever see. Even going to my local Coles is quite the beautiful view of The Jamison Valley. I ride up to Katoomba and ride along Cliff Drive and it never ceases to blow my mind with its beauty.
My favourite thing about this video is the awe and wonder on Ryan’s face! 😃🥰🇦🇺
As an aussie who lives next to the blue mountains I APPROVE
7:18 rode this back in the early ‘80s when it was caged, not glass
Thanks for viewing my home I feel proud to live in a place like this!
My parents lived in the Blue Mts for a long time and we always visited there as Sydney people. I have family history with the railway line. Australia has a lot of mountains, part of the Great Dividing Range. In Primary school we learnt about the Blue Mts explorers and towns are named after them
I’ve lived in the Blue Mountains for 37 years and raised 3 kids here
My brother in law held his newborn son up on the edge of that rock you called Pride Rock! I couldn’t watch and had to walk back to the car! Definitely a beautiful part of the world!
There are so many great walks and canyons. The bush is so thick it makes it difficult to find people when they need to search for missing or injured hikers.
I live in the Blue Mountains. There are many magical hiking trails in this region. I usually recommend visiting Govett's Leap in Blackheath, which is about 10 kilometres west of Katoomba. Beautiful area, sometimes it snows here in Winter.
Both of my parents were born and raised in Lithgow and my mum told me that she used to go on the Zig Zag railway to Sydney. My grandfather worked in the coal mines
The Zig Zag railway was replaced by a new route with lots of tunnels in 1910. When was your mum born?
My mum was born in 1929 and my dad was born in 1927
I went on the scenic railway back in the late 1970s when the carriages were open. Also remember watching the motorsports at Katoomba's old Catalina Park racetrack on the TV. It was one of those old school extremely dangerous racetracks.
Long time subscriber and Blue Mountains resident. Thanks for checking out my part of the world.
I used to work at the scenic railway when i lived in Katoomba. It was an amazing place to live and go to work in. One of the best jobs with the best views in the world.
New addition to the cable car: you can now pay extra to ride outside on the roof! With refreshments served! 😆It's definitely on my to-do list.
We rode the Blue Mountains scenic railway when my daughter was 5. She slipped as we were getting on and somehow fell head first between the platform and the train. I did one of those "dad saves" you see in videos and stuck out my hand and managed to grab her ankle just before she would have hit the ground and pulled her back up. She was a bit shaken but unhurt and enjoyed the ride (on the inside of the train!).
I once climbed down onto the 1st of the 3 sisters before all the safety rails. Wow!
Ryan, you should look up the history of the scenic railway.
These days tourists have it good with the modern covered scenic railway. The first time I went on it, the cars were open and the places where you could hang on were limited. At the bottom there were 2 railway buffers, and beyond that there was a sheer drop of quiet some distance.
I remember doing the scenic railway on a school excursion back in the 80s. It wasn't covered back then and looked rickety so it was a scary thrill.
The Blue Mountains are a section of the Great Dividing Range - which runs 3,500 km from North Queensland to Victoria and is roughly 250km wide. A truly beautiful range.
We used to live right near Kurrajong, in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. The whole region is beautiful. It might not be near Sydney beaches but folk there are pretty chilled I can assure you. We moved an hour north of Sydney for career reasons but still own our property there (it's rented out) and would move back into it in a heartbeat if circumstances changed.
A collection of my family live in the Blue Mountains. My ancestors settled a lot of land at the base of the mountains. I started school in a town about an hours drive from some of the scenery you saw. I'm now 400 kilometres away surrounded by sheep. :)
There is a decent hike called the "six foot track" from Jenolan Caves to Katoomba 46 kms or 29 miles in your units. Recommended 3 days, did it between Christmas and New Year period a few years back in two days two nights. There is also quite a few enjoyable shorter walks/hikes to various waterfalls and lookouts throughout the mountains, each of various grades.
I loved the scenic railway when I was a kid
At one stage, you say that the Blue Mountains, and in particular that Valley, would not be known outside Australia. Very true, and something that many Australians themselves may not know is that in a month or 2 (or 12 perhaps) the water you see here may be coming out of a tap in a Sydney home. The water flows into a creek, and from there to a small river. In due course, that river is a tributary of the water in a dam \. In turn, that is the major water supply for Greater Sydney.
I remember going on the scenic railway when a kid (64 now). Definitely not as safety conscious back then. Was definitely scarey back then when in the front seat, especially going reverse back up the hill lol
Yes, me too
The three sisters walk is wild! In parts there’s a path that no bigger then 2 people wide and stairs the same and pretty steep. And the fence is so short you feel like you could go over it easy and fall a thousand foot to yiur death lol beautiful place though
Blue mountains is really a great place to live. I moved away for a year and missed the mountains so much I had to come back. Definitely worth a visit if you're in Sydney. Highly recommend the Elysian bar in Katoomba, amazing views and tasty cocktails.
Nocturnal at Katoomba is amazing! Once you go to the Blue Mountains, you're always drawn back.
I go on holiday to Leura in the Blue Mountains every year. Such a picturesque town
After settlement in 1788, the Blue Mountains were believed to be impassable. It was 25 years before a route crossing the mountains was discovered, in 1813. It was considered a huge achievement, and opened up the interior for the settlers. The modern road across the Blue Mountains plus the railway line still mostly follows that 1813 route, and the City of The Blue Mountains is mostly a long, narrow series of settlements along the route. At Katoomba you look out across a canyon that is not as deep as the Grand Canyon, but is one kilometer wider.
There's also Blue Mountains in the Appalachians! " . . . the southernmost formation of the Appalachians and are part of the larger Kittatinny Ridge that extends into northern New Jersey."
Is that the Blue Ridge mountains of song fame?
@@infin8ee yes blue ridge is the southern end, blue mtns are the northern end in pennsylvania
@@overworlder Ours are called the Blue Mountains from all the eucalyptus trees which are full of eucalyptus oil which slowly rises into the atmosphere and in the diffused light make the mountains look blue from a distance.
I love the Blue Mountains and try to get there as often as possible.
Fun facts:
*That train was originally how they carried coal out of the valley.
*they did build a roller coaster at that location but when doing safety tests found that it was too dangerous so they never opened that ride, but you can still see sections of the track l Pl
Fun fact the incline railway never used to have a roof on it, when I was a kid it was completely open. All that held you up was a metal bar 😂
You should react to other mountain ranges! Snowy, Grampians, Flinders, for a start
I live in western Sydney at the foothills of the blue mountains. I crossed the mountains to Lithgow earlier this week.
I have only visited once a long time time ago when I lived in Perth and didn't really do any of the tourist stuff there, just some walking trails. And yes, the shade of the leaves of the eucalyptus trees does make the scenario look blue as the sunlight and clouds shift.
The Blue Mountains is part of the Great Dividing Range that runs from Victoria in the South throughout New South Wales up to and through Queensland.
I did the scenic railway back in 79 while holidaying in Sydney.. It’s completely different these days to the old ride..
I used to live in katoomba, the blue mountains region is one of the prettiest places in Australia 🇦🇺
You might find the Glasshouse Mountains interesting. They're the cores of long-extinct volcanoes, and are often used as challenge climbs by rock climbers. They're in the Great Dividing Range, and their part is north and west of Brisbane. If you already know "The Sunshine Coast" area north of Brisbane, they're due west of there.
I lived there for over 10 years - very special place ❤️
That was very cool Ryan thanks, I love the fact you suddenly said I wonder how many people die and google it, lol I do the same😅. That scenic railway, I had no idea it was as crazy at the start…I can just imagine getting on expecting to have a lovely quiet time then “Ahhhh” that explains why that woman was holding on as soon as she got in lol 😂
Riding through the Blue Mountains on a motorbike (cruiser style) is absolute magic.
I am from MD and live in The Blue Mountains!
The 3 pillars are called THE THREE SISTERS. It’s an aboriginal story.
Where is MD ?
@ in Maryland
@@keithkearns93 in medical doctor
The Blue Mountains are beautiful and diverse, the three stacks are known as the Three Sisters. It’s in NSW, west of Sydney. It has a large forested area as well.
Lived an hour from blue mountains, been over grand canyon in helicopter both amazing
Just so you understand Ryan, when you looked at the map trying to work it out the blue mountains run parallel to the east coast of Australia almost the entire length of Australia kind of like the appalachians and equally as beautiful and unique
There's the Otway ranges in Victoria and its like a rain forest with 226 waterfalls.
Love watching your work Many thanks.
Katoomba and the Three Sisters is a day trip if you are based in Sydney.
Hi mate, weird you are reacting to the Blue Mountains as I'm currently trying to help a friend get his financials together to buy a bargain house up there at a place named Lawson.
It' s such a good buy, but it doesn't look like he can afford it currently. It used to snow up there in winter but they havent had snow in years now I'm told due to climate change.
If I was in a little bit better of a financial position, I would grab it as you can get the fast train down into sydney from there for daily work etc. as many people do. If you want to move here this woul d be a good house for you!
The flooding of the Burragorang valley is why the Blue Mts doesn't get as much snow since the 1960's, since the body of water stabilises the temperature. There was some snow on the western parts this year. As for commuting to Sydney for work on the train; I did that for 27 years and ended up with just about every airborne illness imaginable.
check out the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains, I think it is the largest and oldest caves in Australia. Not sure but because Australia is the oldest continent i would think this would make them the oldest caves in the world?
Oooh!!! Good idea!!
"because Australia is the oldest continent i would think this would make them the oldest caves in the world?"
That assumes that the caves are as old as the continent. The claim about the oldest continent assumes a naturalistic view of history.
I live at the foot of the Blue Mountians at Penrith. There are many Beautiful walks in the Blue Mountains
So many people from my hometown of Penrith on here!! Lots of Penrith love ❤
@ErinFromSydney I have lived in the area for almost 50years was at Mt Druitt before that
@ me too. I was in “The Riff” for 43 years to the day, until last year when I moved up the mountains. I love my Penrith and I love my mountain home. I joke that Penrith has three degrees of separation instead of the usual 6
@ErinFromSydney I live at Jordan Spring but always wanted to live at Leura or Blaxland
@ I used to live right behind the Overlander, at Cambridge Gardens, so we used to be practically neighbours 🙂 I’m not far from Leura now
Loved that South Park bit . It’s like every ride I’ve ever gone on.
Grew up in the Blue Mountains, amazing childhood... luckiest guy in the world
I live within the City of Penrith
Directly adjacent to this
The mountains are so pretty
I had a friend who -
No sorry i wont say
If someone reading this ever feels like your life is hopeless, please reach out to someone in your life you are worth it!
You mentioned at 2:30 about a possibility and it made me remember a harsh thing that happened
Please please, you are worth it
Another one from Penrith!!
And yes, sadly, I think a lot of people from our region do… take their final curtain call there. Thank you for encouraging people to seek help
Blue Mountains National Park - 1,035 square miles/2,680 km2
Yes there has been a few people in the years that have either died by suicide or by accident from falling off the cliffs.
But, we have some incredible volunteer rescue teams on call there too! 🙋
I live in Penrith the start of the mountains i remember going there as a kid to the 3 sisters and riding the old train down the mountain in open carriages and the old cable car going over the valley was fun times have a look at pics of them Ryan see the difference .
0:41 Katoomba is in the middle of the blue mountains
We have a mountain range that runs all the way down the east coast of Australia called the Great Dividing Range
you need to look into that steep train at end, lots of history around it and like you mentioned has a record which is kinda cool, I've been on it a few times in my 50 odd years, was wood when I was a kid, slowly had improvements/upgrades to make it safe and enjoyable, you are almost standing upright when going on it
also Jenolan caves are up that way, not sure if there's any vid footage, but the photos will blow you away