Star Gazing

6 April 2024, Wenworth Falls, Blue Mountains

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We have looked forward to this weekend for a couple of months. We have booked a session of star gazing in the Blue Mountains, when the moon is dark.

And we are not going alone. Tristans best friends June and Scott and their family are coming too. We camp together at Blackheat Tourist Park.

Saturday afternoon we arrive at Govet Leap Lookout. Just

Then we set up tents, chat, play and cook spaghetti together and at 7pm it is time to gaze at the star.

Our guide is a passionate man and tells us all about the differences between northern and southern hemisphere, about Orion, the Southern Cross which is moving, compared to the Pole Star which never moves but is not visible from Australia.

We look into the big telescope and see a nebula, a star nursery, and the`jewel box` with different coloured /aged stars. Very interesting and beautiful but impossible to catch in photos...

Wenworth Falls at night, under the starry sky...

In the morning we enjoy breakfast, play at the river, pack up ...

... and then we go all together for a 8km hike along the Cliff Top track, at Evans Lookout.

Before going home we stop again at Wenworth Falls, this time in the daylight. And it is so worth coming back !