Jenolan Caves

Wednesday 11th February was to have been a golf game at Katoomba. The weather at Katoomba was very foggy and raining so golf was out of the question. Looking at all the options around Katoomba a trip to the Jenolan Caves was about the only option. We never at any time had a chance to view the "Three Sisters" as the fog persisted the whole time we were there.

We travelled about an hour an a half to get to the caves through countryside that was very dry & in need of good steady rain. It had been many years since I had seen the caves & they were a very distant memory to me. I was amazed to find that it is now believed that the caves could be up to 340 million years old and are the oldest open caves in the world. I have been in Europe and been in awe of things that were several thousand years old and been thinking of how young our own country was. This was something quite different, older and here it is in our own back yard.

With that information at hand I had a new appreciation of the caves. We opted to take the Rivers Cave Tour which was two hours and 1294 steps. It was a good tour as we got to see the still water pools that were crystal clear and a lovely aqua blue that had the most magnificent reflections from the lighting effects put in by the management of the caves. This tour also includes some magnificent crystal formations. My digital camera could not capture the true beauty of it all.

This was something that we did by default and at the end of the day I was pleased that I could view the caves again through more appreciative eyes. Having been there before, albeit in my youth, they were never on my "Things to do list" & by choice I would never have made the effort to get there again. Sometimes things do get to turn out for the best.