Blogs from Jindabyne, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania

Well where do we start! No really, where do we start! Its been over 3 months since we posted a blog. The reason for this is that we've been hidden away in a national park in the middle of nowhere (not exactly true), with limited or no Internet access and masses and masses of work has meant that we've been far to busy anyway! Ok so the partying and snowboarding also took up quite a bit of our time as well. So we arrived at the Ski Rider Hotel Motel with little idea of what we were getting ourselves into. For a start we didn't appreciate that we would for the next 3 months be "stranded" in the middle of Kosiousko National Park, half an hours drive down the road to the nearest town of Jindabyne ... read more

Même si l'hiver approche, il fait encore incroyablement beau et chaud, et on se sent finalement plus en été qu'en automne. Du coup avec 2 potes (Pierre et Thomas, qui travaillent tous les 2 à Sydney), on s'est dit que le long weekend de Pâques (vendredi et lundi sont feriés ici) serait l'occasion d'aller faire un peu de rando. Et les Snowy Mountains à 2-3h au sud de Canberra (soit 6h de route de Sydney) etaient la destination parfaite: un immense parc national, avec notamment le point culminant de l'Australie, Mont Kosciuszko à 2228m. Les randos etaient superbes, et on a eu un temps assez incroyable, même s'il faisait malgré tout un peu froid, vu qu'on etait en altitude, et quand même beaucoup plus au sud que Sydney. Le sommet de Kosciuszko est finalement très facilement ... read more

Jindabyne to Charlotte Pass After a leisurely breakfast and a session at the Internet Cafe I headed up the road to Charlotte Pass. The road was much as I remember it from 30 years ago when I rode it on a bicycle, but I have no doubt it is now wider and better surfaced than it was in those days. It is a series of loooong uphill stretches, each followed by a much shorter downhill - until the end of the road is reached at Charlotte Pass. The return journey is naturally mostly downhill but being on a motorcycle this time it was not nearly as exhilarating heading back to Jindabyne as it was on the bicycle. Jindabyne to Dalgety After a brief visit to the Snowy Mountains Information Centre I decided to take a trip ... read more

Hello all After Goulburn we HAD planned to slip down to the South Coast of NSW and spend a week or so (between Nowra & Batemans Bay) and hopefully a little more pleasant weather, put the boat in the water, do a spot of fishing, eat oysters/seafood and veg out. But when there was late snowfalls at The Snowy, we decided we should bite the bullet, grit our teeth and bear the cold and head there instead, since the other 3 have never seen snow. So we headed off to Jindabyne and did a day-trip to Thredbo. Not much snow left there now - some very minor stuff, 2 days old, high up in the peaks. We took the chairlift at Thredbo and 'did' the trek to the Mt Kosciuszko Lookout (about 6km/return from the top ... read more