Yarrangobilly Caves

Today we explored Yarrangobilly Caves. We decided to visit all three amazing caves and take a much needed dip in the thermal pool. We were lucky enough to have 2 great guides and we had the later tour all to ourselves; you've gotta love holidaying in term time!

The Old Caves House

History In The Bush

Today we travelled further north through Kosciuszko National Park. We came across a few historical relics and buildings along the way as we walked the Goldseekers Trail and Kiandra Heritage Loop and learnt about the history of the park. We also passed through Australia's highest town Cabramurra at 1475m along with dams associated with the Snowy River Hydroelectric Scheme.

Cabramurra - Australia's highest town

Machine for smashing up rocks in order to extract gold

Tumbler for grading rocks by size

Another rock crusher

Ruins of a gold rush town

We finally arrived at our 2nd wilderness camp at Yarrangobilly. We soon discovered it was situated in a frost hollow!

Thredbo Chairlift

Today we took the chairlift at Thredbo up the mountainside. It was really, really, windy and very cold so the children refused to walk much towards the Kosciuszko mountain. There was still a great view from the top!

We drove further into the national park for our first wilderness camp. Imagine pit toilets, no electricity or water, no mobile reception, just wildlife for company. We passed an old hut at Geehi Flats and the one of the several power stations along the Snowy River. We finally camped up at tiny Clover Flat camp-ground.

Old hut at Geehi

Power station

All alone at wilderness camp #1

Charlotte Pass

Today we drove up to the snow line and did some bush walks around Charlotte Pass. The kids loved the snow!

Alpine National Park

Today we began to climb upwards into the Snowy Mountains with a drive through Alpine National Park and onto Kosciuszko National Park. We had great views across the mountains and the Snowy River along the way.

We arrived at camp, got the camp-fire roaring and watched the kangaroos feeding beside us.

 

Buchan Caves

We left Wilsons Promontory, passing wild emus on the way and headed to Buchan Caves Reserve. Here we took the 2 cave tours and camped for the night.

In the evening we took the Moon Cave walk around the reserve, looked into the Moon Cave and spotted lots of kangaroos grazing nearby.

The next day we took the Spring Creek Falls track to some waterfalls and mossy glades.