Sydney and the not so Blue Mountains...

Sadly our arrival in Sydney has marked the end of our good luck with the weather. Somehow we managed to dodge all the tropical storms up in Queensland and see nothing but blue skies. It's now a chilly 18 degrees in the Blue Mountains (but still 26 in Sydney).
We spent our first 2 days in Sydney exploring the city by foot, clocking up a respectable 20 miles. This of course resulted in 4 very sore feet, but allowed us to visit Darling Harbour and it's many attractions. First we took in the opera house, which from a distance looks spectacular, but becomes a little disappointing when you get up close to its roof which is tiled and surprisingly beige in colour. It wouldn't look out of place on Skem concourse or the London underground!!
We then visited the botanical gardens which are extremely impressive especially with the addition of the friendly cockatoos who landed on Matt for a cheeky feeding of white bread (don't tell, bit naughty of us!!) and the sleeping bats by day. We came back at dusk for the mass exodus of bats as they roused from their nocturnal sleep to squawk lots and feed! We opted out of the Harbour Bridge climb (due to extortionate cost) and settled with walking over it, the views we're still very impressive and even the sun put in an appearance for us!
Now we're in the Blue mountains, previously thought to named after the eucalyptus oils rising from the gum trees giving a blue haze seen from miles around (as far a Sydney - which is 65k east - on a clear day), however its actually due to a more boring scientific reason we won't go in to right now, besides we'd say they were more grey/white in colour at the moment :(
The most recognisable and visited feature of this area is the 3 sisters, three rock pinnacles which have Aboriginal spiritual significance, so we hiked over to have a look (and got temporarily side tracked in the most amazing chocolate shop for a much needed 'do it yourself' hot choc - see photo!!) and made it just in time before the mist descended and remained for the rest if the day but it didn't stop us from doing a bit of bush walking and working up an appetite!!
Today we got some good advise from our hostel about walks suitable for this weather (wet) and so headed for Wentworth Falls. We actually had great weather and were treated to epic views across the gum tree forests and saw some truly stunning waterfalls (4 in total).
Heading back to Sydney now and planning our next 3 days in and around the city.