Travelling as a family is an important part of growing up. Whether you’re going to a local beauty spot or heading further afield, time spent together can create lasting memories. Plus, with so many children spending extended time indoors these days, an outdoor adventure is the perfect way to spark an interest in nature and a respect for the world we live in.
Just off the Great Western Highway near the village of Leura, where the World Heritage-listed national park meets the community, east meets the oldest continuous culture on earth in a yin and yang of harmony, kinship and respect.
The Blue Mountains’ koala population is growing and on the move – but you’re more likely to hear them than see them. And that’s where Blue Mountains locals can help.
Continuing a botanical legacy: Blue Mountains Botanic Garden.Nine years before Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson made their historic trek across the Blue Mountains in 1813, a naturalist named George Caley – curator of the colony’s first botanic gardens at Parramatta – forged a route along the northern rim of the Grose Valley, the first European to penetrate the mountains west of Sydney.
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