The Snowy Mountains–day 3

The night was absolutely freezing! It was very, very, very cold. My friend Julie suggested I should have had a nip (or two) of whiskey to warm me up – I think she was right! It got down to –3 degrees in the night….. Brrrrr…..
The cold night we endured was rewarded by an absolutely splendid morning. It was just so beautiful! The only sound – other than Max and Harry squealing in delight – was birdsong and water flowing. Take a look at some of the photos to get an idea …

Max and Harry checking out the frost at 8.30am. It was a very cold night.

Harry in an amazing tree that has grown vertically and horizontally.

"We're touching real snow!!"

Later that day we travelled to ‘Charlotte’s Pass’ where Max and Harry got to see snow for the first time. It was very icy, as the snow had fallen a couple of weeks before and had hardened to ice over time, but they were still very excited!!


From Charlotte’s Pass we could see Mt Kosciusko – Australia’s highest mountains and also one I find terribly difficult to spell! Thank goodness for spell check on the computer, otherwise I’d need to refer to a map every time I try to spell it.






We went from here back into Jindabyne and across to Cooma via Dalgety and Maffra. We had a quick look around Cooma before heading around 20km north to stop at another free camp alongside the Numeralla River. We set up camp and decided to go back to Cooma sans caravan tomorrow to learn more about the famous hydro-electric scheme which is in place.


Camping last night was %$^%$#$ cold – the campsite was named ‘Thredbo Diggings’ as in the 19th century gold diggers based themselves in this area. I found the idea of digging for gold and then sleeping only in a tent with limited food completely unfathomable – how they did it is just too hard to comprehend, especially in Winter. However, the day we had today definitely made up for it. The morning experience at the campsite, followed by the drive through Thredbo, Perisher and Jindabyne more than compensated! Australia certainly is a land of great contrasts!