Red hands cave, Blue Mountains National Park
Life has been so very busy of late that I haven’t really had time to write much here. The weekend before last we took my friend Iris and her friend from Germany to the Blue Mountains. We had to leave Sydney quite early, because Andrew was playing hockey at 5 pm so we knew we’d have to leave the mountains relatively early.
We picked Iris and her friend up from Strathfield, and our first stop was in Glenbrook where we got directions to the Red Hands Cave. I’d never been there before, and found it quite interesting. It was about a 10 minute walk in from the car park, and the cave is blocked off by mesh and rather scratched perspex. In fact, the best view we got of it was by taking a photo! We then went to a lookout over the Nepean River, which was absolutely gorgeous, and checked out the campsite for future reference.
From there we went to Katoomba to see the Three Sisters for the typical tourist photograph, and then on to Govetts Leap for a late picnic lunch. We stopped to check out Wentworth Falls on the way back, but didn’t really have the time to walk down to the lookout. So we drove back to Sydney, dropped off Iris and her friend, got to the hockey ground with about half an hour to spare.
It was about then that Andrew realised that we hadn’t brought his hockey shoes. I’d been trying to hurry him up in the morning, and so had packed his shirt, shorts, socks and hockey stick into his bag and took it down to the car. I hadn’t even thought about his shoes. Because I’d packed his things, Andrew forgot to pick up his shoes (I guess thinking that I already had them). So this debacle meant that he couldn’t play. We drove home, but it was too far to make a return trip to the ground worthwhile (the game would have been more than half over). So that’s the story of how Andrew missed his last hockey game of the season.
