Sydney: Part 2 - Jenolan Caves

♫ Music cue - "Everything is AWESOME"

The Sunday we planned for our little excursion to Jenolan Caves falls on the the annual Sydney Sydney to Surf run. As we cut cross the Domain to get to the car rental place, we saw Lego Superheroes! I couldn't be bothered running to get the front of the Lego characters, so... all you get to see is the back of Lego Superman and Lego Batman.

I'm still on my measly L license, it is in the plan this year, but now depending on what happens in line. Long story. Anyway, back to as I am still on L, Little P has the full driving responsibility and I resumed my duty of eating, drinking and taking random photos.

After many trials and contacts with tour operators in attempt to join a tour instead of self drive, it was finally concluded that the best way was still to self drive. Reason being both of us have been to Blue Mountains and all tours to Jenolan Caves includes a tour to Blue Mountains. We wanted to spend more time in the cave than the mountain. The second reason was because after Little P did some research, she has concluded that she does not want to go to the caves covered by tours.

Approaching the caves

Tickets to the right

We have initially wanted to do both Diamond Cave and River Cave but the earliest we could get the car rental was at 7 in the morning and given the travelling time, we missed the tour time for Diamond Cave which was scheduled at 10.30 am on weekends. The helpful staff in Jenolan Caves suggested that we do the self guided audio tour of Nettle Cave, which was a complementary entry as we purchased the tour for River Cave and have a quick bite before entering the River Cave.

We decided that we would treat our tummy first before starting on Nettle Cave.

Pasta and pumpkin soup

There were not a lot of hot food option, mostly sandwiches and cakes. We had some muffins as breakfast in the car, and it wasn't really time for lunch yet, so Little P and I shared a plate of pasta and pumpkin soup.

Nettle Cave doesn't bring one to underground, in fact it feels more on level ground. Jenolan Caves' own website described this cave as a 'twilight' cave which featured huge open caverns. A difference compared to other caves on offered.

After spending about an hour odd, it was soon about time for us to get ready for our show cave tour - River Cave. I had some time to sneak in a cup of coffee, enjoying the good weather at Jenolan Caves.

We were told to be at the meeting point about 10 minutes of so before the tour starts. There was a short briefing of what we could bring or not to, this includes eating even candy or chewing gum to preserve the environment inside the cave. We were also pre-emp of having to climb some vertical staircase. Just like when we were in Kata Tjuta, Little P happily picked the one which coincidentally rated as the highest difficulty = ="
I would've taken a picture of the brochure as a proof but seem to have misplace it somewhere in the house. Umm...

A clear and still river

This was formed after a supporting structure was placed there... cool eh?

It was fairly obvious why the tour we went were named as River Cave as the river was spectacular, so I thought I'll put another photo here, taken on the way out.

We were lucky that on our way out, we saw some wallabies!

Shame I didn't get a good photo of them, as that was the first time handling my new toy and I was also worried that those wallabies pound on me :|

On the brighter side of things though, the day was still bright, and we were greeted with a view of the blue pond.

Side note: Got to cut down those carbs!!!!