Longing for Chocolate... Sulfur Crested Cockatoo looks in the window at the chocolate shop...

This guy was most interested in the Chocolate shop... note the reflection in the window showing what the previous occupants of the table left behind.

The Three Sisters overlooking the Jamison Valley, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

Hiking around the Cliff Walks and the side trips can be very exhausting! Caught the bus to Echo Point today and kept my walks to a minimum... this is one of the views of the Three Sisters from today's adventure... showing part of Mount Solitary on the right with the Jamison Valley and distant vistas included.

The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia

Legend has it that three sisters were turned to stone by a medicine man who intended to reverse the spell when it was safe to do so... but he was killed in battle so they remain as stone to this day. Here they are posing for a close-up with the Jamison Valley behind them. This view was taken on my hike around the Cliff Walk today... cannot recall which lookout provided this spectacular view but it was somewhere near Echo Point on the Prince Henry Cliff Walk. (NOTE: there is more than one legend of the Three Sisters, all involve turning them to stone (either by a witch doctor or medicine man) to keep them safe with plans to return them to their natural state being foiled by the untimely death of the spell caster)

Camellia ... photographed in the Blue Mountains in Australia, New South Wales

It's still winter in the Blue Mountains but their winter is not quite like ours... all kinds of flowers blooming and it seems as if it is spring already here!