Canberra and The Snowy Mountains

David gets the dinner on - whilst the kangaroos look on!

Walking up Mount Kosciuszko via a red run, spot Nic!

Glimpse of the chairlifts - the cheats way to the top!!!!

On the summit!

Views from the top of Australia

So after a night in a Canberra (long enough!) we headed south where we were would spend the night surrounded by mountains, all above 1600m. We set up camp in a very basic but empty site and got cracking with our first bush curry - we were then joined by some hungry kangaroos! Darkness fell and the stars entertained us for the evening with a now slightly cooler bottle of wine!

After a weird night of hearing kangaroos jumping around our tent munching away on the grass, we packed up and headed further into the bush. We travelled along the longest gravel road ever, pit-stopped by a 2 hour walk in the bush, out of ACT and back in NSW. We were now heading for Kosciuszko (Pronounced Kozzeeosko) National Park or otherwise famously known as the Snowy Mountains!

We drove the long way round through the mountains (working David's watch hard - over the day we had ascended over 6000m!) and stopped for lunch at Kahncoban Australia's highest town! We eventually made our way to Thredbo to stay for a couple of nights to tackle Australia's highest peak!

We were already the height of Snowdon when we started the climb but 2228m metres was still a way up! There were chairlifts going halfway which was weird with not a drop of snow in sight, but that was cheating! The weather was perfect for climbing and after 4 hours we made it greeted by fantastic views over the great dividing range!