The Blue Mountains to Canberra

In the morning I got up and made a sausage barm and coffee for breakfast then went out to try and see the sights of the area, The YHA was in Katoomba which is famous for the Three Sisters rock formation so I drove down the road to view point but it was total white out fog so I drove around to the 'Scenic View' Resort where you can go down the edge of the mountain on the worlds steepest railway walk around a 'rain' forest and then come back up on a glass bottomed gondola all for the price of about $28,on being told the cloud base was down to the rain forest I saw little point in paying that much, to get soaked, to see very little. So I looked around the overpriced gift shop and left. I drove around to the Tree Sisters again and this time I thought I'd best try and see at least something so I parked up and walked down to the viewing point. Luckily for me just as I got there the cloud opened up enough for me to get a quick couple of pictures before closing in again (and 2 coach loads of Korean tourists descended) a quick exit was in order!
Back in the dry of the car I decided to head down to Canberra as it was sort of on the way.
I got into Canberra around 6pm and found the Tourist information office but it was now closed but had a list of campsites on the wall picking two I took a drive down to one but didn't like to look of it as it was way out of the town, driving back in I rounded the Capital Hill where the Australian parliament sits (It's a big grassy knoll, with a flag on top!) and went back up through the centre of the town to find one nearer the centre. The facilities were limited and the camping areas were like tarmac but it would have to do. I drove down to the local shopping centre and had a delightfully unhealthy huge kebab and got a couple of beers to take back to the site.