It’s time to leave our great capital and head into the snow country. I had selected a campsite just on the edge of Kosciuszko National park. There was not a lot of detail on this site and many of the sites in Kosciuszko National park are closed for the winter, this one was supposed to be open. First stop was Cooma and it was not hard to guess what this town was about, there were ski hire stores everywhere and every second store had a snowman on the veranda awning. It was lunch time and after looking at a couple of take-away places we decided that the $16 roast at one of the pubs was the ideal lunch on a cold winter’s day.

From Cooma we headed to Adaminaby, a small town on Lake Eucumbene. The town was relocated to its current position in 1957 when the lake filled. We filled up and headed to the National park, the campsite was supposed to be just outside of this town. After about 10 kms into the park there was no sign of the campsite I was looking for. We stopped at a couple that were marked but they were all closed. As we got higher into the national park we could see snow on the mountain peaks and there was also quite a bit on the side of the road and in the open spaces near the road. We stopped at one of the emergency mountain hut for a brief look.

Kosciuszko National park Mountain Hut

It was becoming obvious that we would not find a spot in the national park so we continued on towards Tumut. Jacky was becoming a little distressed over the number of wombats lying on the side of the road with their short legs in the air, a total of 12 through the national park. Just before Tumut there is the Blowering reservoir and there are a number of campsites along the reservoir. We pulled into Yolde camping ground and it was a nice, fairly seclude bush site just back from the water. The main drawback was that we were now nearly 100 kms from the nearest snowfield.