Bushfire disaster destroying the Blue Mountains World heritage ecology by government neglect then decreeing a blanket shut down of all visitation was just the start from 10th November 2019. It was the worst carbon particulate pollution event in New South Wales history, perhaps for millennia. This was immediately followed the China coronavirus global pandemic and the abject failures of […]
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Grand Canyon Walking Track forced to be taken one way by Parks Service
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We read sadly that two more visitors to the Blue Mountains partaking on a canyoning trip have just perished. Last Saturday 2nd January 2021 at around 2:30pm, two participants with the locally based Upper Blue Mountains Bushwalking Club have tragically drowned while liloing in Wollangambe Canyon. This increasingly popular wet canyon is situated a few kilometres north of Mount Wilson […]
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Echo Point Lookout to the Three Sisters pagodas in the Blue Mountains just keeps attracting massive government funding for expansion to attract more crowds. A whopping $22 million has been poured to this lookout by government since 2003 seemingly fixated on the premise that mass tourism visitation must translate to greater prosperity for local tourism. No, the reality of mass […]
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Fifty buses a day – huge tourist coaches and mini-buses – concentrate on retail Leura Mall. It’s crazy and unfair. Bus congestion dominates Leura daily due to corporate tourism promotion of the Blue Mountains and specifically Leura to encourage the inbound tourist trade. But has Leura’s retail, attractions and accommodation benefitted? No. A local council traffic survey of just 200 […]
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