We had a BIG day driving around the Snowy Mountains. We dropped the van back at a little place called Tumut. It's right on the Tumut River which comes out of Blowering Reservoir Dam. Because we're in the high country, the river was running fast and clear and you could see the trout lazily swimming in the shallow waters.
Once we unloaded the van, we hopped back into the car and took off. We stopped into a place called Yongobilly Caves. They have several caves in that area, but we took fastest one due to time restraints. It was HUGE inside.
Similar to Carlsbad Caverns in Texas. ( that I could remember) The first thing we noticed was the drop in temperature. It was around 34C/93F in the valley, but once inside the cave, the temperature dropped to 15C/55F. Water was dripping everywhere. Stalagtites met with stalagmites. It was awesome inside. Even Chris enjoyed it and his claustrophobia didn't play up on him.
Once outside, we headed down to Jindabyne. About half way down we got to a little place called Anglers Reach where we stopped in to have lunch. We were met by the new owners of the shop and they told us all about the area while we ate our lunch.
We made it into Jindabyne around 2:30pm and we we're only half way through the circuit that we were travelling. We continued on and made it to Thredbo and up to Mount Kosioscko. The view was great and we noticed that there were quite a few trees dying. We weren't sure from what. But the amount of dead trees cast a grey shadow across those trees that were left behind.
We followed out the back of the mountain and that was nice too. It seemed to be a bit greener on this side of the mountain. We travelled through farming country and made it into Batlow where they grow apples. We saw many hills covered in white protective shadecloth for the apple orchards. And we finally made it back to the caravan at 8pm. 11 hours of travelling today and we're exhausted. So an extra day is good or we can have a late start.
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