Snowy Mountains (minus the snow)

Left Tathra on Monday and stayed the night at Cooma. After talking to a couple of fellow travelers decided to stay a second night and take in a drive through the Snowy Mountains, which is the Kosciuszko National Park!


At first we were thinking of turning around and abandoning the idea, but then we noticed the "transit" entry on the board


We were told that the pass that we had meant that we could not get out of the car.......not even for a toilet stop!
However, we detoured for a drive through Thredbo





The road wound its way up the hill between the chalets and eventually back on to the road named Alpine Way.


We were on the highest mountain in Australia, noticed the trees all looked dead but were shooting again from the bottom


We later found out that there had been a massive brushfire through the national park in the 80s, which is why so many trees were dead.

On our return route we drove through Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia


By the way, if we had driven our scenic drive in reverse order, we would not have passed through a "toll booth" for National Parks which means wee would not have known that we should not get out of our car.