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We are so glad that we chose to go up into the mountains instead of taking the coast way. Before the mountains we drove through rolling hills with cows and sheep, really nice views along the way.
We stopped for lunch in Jindabyne which is situated by a really big lake. We stopped in a park next to the lake and the kids could enjoy running around a bit while we sorted out lunch. Could easily have stayed in Jindabyne to have a look around but it was too early in the day to stop.
We drove on, now getting into the mountain climbing part. There were some really steep parts but we got up without any problems, althought not with any great speed. As we got to the visitor entrance station we found out that if we want to stay in the national park or just drive through Thredbo then it would cost $16 but if we just wanted to pass through it was free. We wanted to have look at Thredbo and we needed to fill up the car with fuel so we paid the $16. Thredbo looked like a really nice little village, could see ourselves skiing there for sure. Maybe in a few years when the kids are older.
We drove on for some more windy roads and beautiful views. Here it also got a little bit sweaty for Patrik the driver. There were some very steep down hill bits and the breaks were overheating a bit. We couldn't quite figure out how to just go on low gears as it's an automatic car. But we did get down the hill without any damage to the car. Later, he did figure out what to do so for the future steep decents we will be fine. It took longer than we thought to drive down so when we got to the Tom Groggin rest and camping area we decided that we would stay the night at the bush camp. Lucky we paid the entry fee!!
It was a beautiful camp site right next to Murray River. Not as big as we had seen it before in Murray Bridge. There were kangaroos jumping around all over the place and one was getting into the pantry of some other people camping there. They were not home so I was thinking, should I go over there to scare the kangaroo away and save their bread?That kangaroo was almost as tall as me so the answer was NO! I'm not going over there, let him eat the bread!!
Later, when I was putting the kids to bed there were heaps of kangaroos outside the caravan and we could hear the kookaburras laughing. It was really nice. Shame we couldn't sit outside to enjoy it, but Max wants us close when he goes to sleep and it was cold! Bush camping means no heater, so out came the blankets.
In the morning I went for a beautiful run around the camping area which was a lot larger than we had first thought. We didn't dare drive further with the caravan as it gets a bit tricky if there is nowhere to turn around. During my run I saw hundreds of kangaroos our in a large field just enjoying the morning sun. Great nature moment.
We drove on to Khancoban. On the way, there were some more steep decents. But now we knew how to deal with them properly, Patrik was a lot happier! We had lunch in Khancoban, which was built just to house people working in the mountains. As we still had quite a drive ahead of us we decided to do another night of bush camping instead of having a really long day driving. We stopped at Three Mile Dam which also was a very large camp site. It was already quite crowded but we managed to find a spot. After setting up we went for a little walk around and the kids enjoyed throwing rocks in the water. The big kids enjoyed it too!
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