Blogs from Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Bit behind in the diary writing for a few parts - bit hard to find the time whilst on holiday.... so a few piccies of of the kids in the snow and climbing Mt Kosciuszko... read more

Well well, after 3 and a bit months in Melbourne it was time to leave and it almost felt as if we were leaving home. We had a going away night on Monday at a pub called Pugg Mahones which is a usual monday place to go with the hostel. It was really good, but sad that we would never see any of the buggers in there again. Anyway we rented the same car that we got for the Great Ocean Road and hired it for 3 days to make the 8 hour drive to Sydney. I think that the time was probably meant for people who were taking a direct route... we managed to drive for about 25 hours because we stopped off practically everywhere on the way. On the way out of Melbourne we ... read more

The begining is always a logical place to start. Seen as we have not had many visitors to Tumut, here's an update. It is a small country town of somewhere between 7,000-11,000 people. Jake and I are right into our innercity living, so are in the CBD, a 4 minute walk from our desks @ work. It is at least a 10 minute walk until you are close enough to the countryside to see cows and suchlike. It is hot and it is cold....in the past 2 weeks we have suddenly had to cope with temperatures ranging between 30-40 degrees celcius to a sudden nasty drop of temperatures in the 9-20 degree range...ouch! The town has a big river, great for kyaking. It has a mountain bike park right on the edge of town. It ... read more

We had a great few days staying with Bridget and her family when we arrived in Sydney. The first night John cooked the biggest steaks that you ever seen on the BBQ, making Sam’s week! Bridget took us on the Manly scenic walk, which is a lovely 9km coastal route, passing through lots of harbour beaches where families were out for the day swimming and having BBQs. It is strange to see areas of the sea cordoned off for swimming but necessary, as there are harbour sharks! We finished at Manly beach where the boys went for a swim and just as the lifeguards were announcing that there were lots of bluebottles appearing in the water, Sam got stung by one! They are jellyfish like creatures, and it managed to practically wrap itself all the way ... read more

hey! right well we started the trip early- or 4 me just an extension of the previous day! and set off to wilson's promitory! this is a beautiful national park, where we saw wild roos, several different wombats species(amber), emu's etc. this place is absolutely huge an so diverse, we started off in the plains with the animals, then ventured a little further to this stunning little bay where we saw a (snowy) wombat- not entirely sure that’s right but he was just wondering across the beach. what was so cool about these animals is that they're wild and et they let you just wonder through their territory totally unbothered by us. we then went to another beautiful reserve, where you can camp which had they most beautiful scenery- blue blue skies(also was feeling heat), mountains ... read more