Sydney & Deus Ex Machina

Sorry I've taken an age to write about what I have been up to since Byron Bay, but there is a distinct lack of
wifi in hostels down in the south of Australia. After Byron we took the night Greyhound coach down to Sydney and me, Izzy and Pete met back up with Nicola and Luke. We all booked into a hostel in King's Cross, to say it wasn't the nicest hostel in the world would be generous, but it was cheap and one of the few hostels around that had enough beds for all five of us.

As it wasn't raining we thought we'd go and get all of our sight seeing down at the obvious tourist spots like the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the Botanical Gardens.

The next day we all chipped in and hired a car (a surprisingly nice Kia Sportage to be precise) so we could drive to the Blue Mountains, or 'White Mountains' as we called them because of the cloud and fog. On the way we dropped into a shop that I've been dying to see for years, a custom motorcycle shop called Deus Ex Machina. They take classic bikes and give them a modern twist, I think they have the style down to a tee!

After I had calmed down in the Deus shop we got on our way to the Blue Mountains, which really just ended up being a picnic in the back of the car for Nicola's birthday. We took a bit of a detour home to find 'Red Hand Caves', some caves which have ancient Aboriginal artwork inside. I found getting there the most exciting bit! We had about a half hour off road drive (in our front wheel drive car) and then a 10 minute walk from the end of the road. It really felt about a million miles from any civilization, we even heard wild dingoes barking in the distance. Unfortunately my camera was too big to fit through the metal fencing to get photos of the actual artwork itself!