Browns Down Under!

Mallinsons and trip to Blue Mountains

Carrie and Daniel
One of the great blessings of this trip has been to visit with Geoff and Carrie (Wheeler) Mallinson and their children, Daniel, 2 yo. and Linnhe, 5 mos. We have joined them at MacQuarie Chapel for Sunday services two weeks in a row. And they have shown us around some of the areas that they hope to have an impact through their ministry with WEC. I have been able to babysit a couple of times (yeah!!) and it has worked out that we will be able to use one of the WEC apartments. This past Sunday after church, The Mallinsons drove us up to the Blue Mountains and we hiked DOWN the mountain edge (only part way, which was enough) to view and play in one of the Wentworth Waterfall's pools.

Geoff loaded up with 2 kiddos for the hike!


After hiking through the woods on gently sloping trails, we headed down the steep parts, most of which had steps, some cut into the stone, all with hand rails. good thing!!


There were stepping stones across the top of the falls, this is sorta looking over.... don't get too near!!!







Tom coming down one section of the path.


This is looking down at the group, Geoff, with kids, Carrie and Tom.











We met this large(about 2 1/2 feet nose to tail) lizzard on the path, he was quite good about posing for us, was not in a hurry to scamper away, although he did finally scoot over to let us pass. We saw him on the way up also, as he was entertaining another group of hikers on the way down.












We made it to a nice rest area, this is looking up to the top half of the waterfall.







Tom and Terry cooling off in one of the refreshing pools at the bottom of this section of the falls.











Terry with Linnhe cooling off in the shade of a rock overhang.





Tom and Carrie take a little break near the end after hiking back up. My hands were firmly wrapped around the railings climbing up, no time for pictures on the way up. It was a great hike, but we only did a small fraction of it. We will have to go back and do the hike around the inside ledges of the canyon.

posted by Thomas G Brown @ 3:48 PM