Canberra and the Snowfields of the Snowy Mountains

Us at one of the lookouts over Canberra

The view from the lookout right through to Parliament House

Captain Cook memorial jet on Lake Burley Griffin

A ball suspended in the sky - why I don't know!!!

Parliament House

Charlie on the marble staircase in Parliament House

Charlie and his mate Little Johnny

Old Parliament House

The aboriginal embassy!!!!

The War Memorial

The Pool of Remembrance - Australian War Memorial

One of the brilliant diaromas at the War Memorial

One of the many bronze statues

On our way to the snowfields

Thredbo River

He's bloody freezing!!!

Lots of snow still at Charlotte Pass

Coming to the end of the snow season

I still like to play snowballs!!!

Die-hard skiers making the most of the week's extension of the snow season at Perisher

Snow covered Snowy Mountains

Mountains streams starting to appear again

This is the most energetic we got at the top of the mountain - wine and lunch

Fishing on Lake Jindabyne - the perfect end to a perfect segment of our journey

And he's successful!!



Ready for the pan - fresh rainbow trout from the pristine waterways of the Snowy Mountains - yum

Well we did all the touristy things in the bush capital of Canberra and viewing the city from many of the wonderful lookouts around the city you can certainly see why its called that.  Parliament House was very interesting but unfortunately Julia was in America so we couldn't have tea and scones with her!!

We looked through the Australian War Memorial which is brilliant - very well displayed and doesn't seem to glorify war which we liked.  You really do need a full day to see everything as it is quite overwhelming.  We did a quick Cooks tour of the city and saw all the Embassies including the Aboriginal Embassy just perched in the parklands - different!!

I then decided that I would be sadistic and torture Charlie so organised for us to go to the Snowy Mountains and the snowfields - ha ha!!!  The snow season had been extended by a week and we were told there was still plenty of snow there so I thought it would be fun!!  We stayed in Jindabyne in the caravan park right on the lake which is very pretty and then did a day trip up into Kosciuzko National Park to Perisher, Charlotte Pass and Thredbo.  It was lovely to see the snow and there were still lots of skiers taking advantage of the week long extension of the snow season.  We went on the chairlift in Thredbo to the Eagles Nest Restaurant at the top of the mountain - 1937 metres above sea level and the highest restaurant in Australia.  We had a lovely lunch of goulash and wine and I felt quite exhausted after all that!!

The mountains looked beautiful with their covering of snow and I can imagine it would look quite magical in the height of the snow season - wish I'd learned to ski when I was younger.

Decided to stay on here at Jindabyne for an extra day because those elusive trout were bypassing Charlie and he was getting a little bit toey because he hadn't caught much.  Success happened and he caught 2 lovely rainbow trout which we will have tonight for dinner before heading off tomorrow to do some free camping on the other side of Kosciuzko as we slowly head down to Melbourne where we will stay for a week before heading over to Tasmania on 22nd October.

Not sure what happened to my Floriade photos which I uploaded so if I can find them I will publish them separately - so for now its Adieu from The Wandering 2s - till the next time.