The Blue Mountains - more pics of Oz... (ops!)

Ops! I just saw that I had a few more pics from Oz that I forgot to add :) ... and one more post on the Koala Sanctuary!

These pics are taken at the Blue Mountains which is only a few hours out of Sydney.

Pretty Sunset

The Three Sisters

Here I am in front of the Three Sisters.

Speaking of children...

This sign was posted in the bathroom at a quaint little cafe in the Blue Mountains. At first we thought they were joking... but then an eyebrow was raised when our server was a 5 year old boy. Further suspicion was raised when the cooks were between the ages of 4-10, all from different parents. But the owner pointed to the happy, childless couples quickly driving away and said: "Now, do those look like the faces of parents who are missing their children?"

This is a picture of one of Ragnar's birds that would come every morning to eat his scrumptious selection of bird feed. The really cool thing is that Ragnar lives in Sydney and THIS is the kind of bird that is just hanging out!! Certainly not what we'd see back in Toronto!!

The best was when a BIG magpie (which is black and white) came and threatened to take the seeds from the rainbow lorikeets. It was a symbolic battle between good (the rainbow lorikeet, with a diverse range of colours) and bad (the magpie, with only the narrow perspective of concrete 'black and white thinking'). The magpie towered over the little colourful birds and we were concerned that this battle was going to end in disappointment for our friends. But this little dude above stood firm and picked up one foot as if to push the schoolyard bully. There was some ruffling of feathers, and at the end of the day, the rainbow warriors were victorious!

One point for the good side.