Friday, December 8, 2006

Snow in summer

Back to the beautiful National Parks and wonderful bush camps. Avoiding the freeways and taking mostly country roads, sealed or unsealed. Making stops at little lunch places where they serve their food with much passion and taste (in Jamieson I had the best muffin ever!).
During the day it’s mostly sunny, unless we are at a lookout and it gets totally overcastted, so there’s not much to look out to. At night it is still cold and I’m wearing all my clothes in my sleeping bag. We thought we were skipping winter this year, spending these months in Australian summer. So we weren’t prepared for the big shock of waking up one morning and finding snow on our tent! I guess the Snowy Mountains wanted to show us what they were worth. A hike at Mount Kosciusko was not possible in this snowstorm. Taking the short cut on an unsealed road wasn’t much fun either in this weather.But back at the coast, at Ben Boyd NP, the sun is shining again.

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