Had a bit of a sleep in before showering and packing up, then headed up to the Oberon bakery for breakfast at 8am. Then it was off south to Goulburn where we got onto the Hume highway and continued on to the Yass Service centre where we refuelled and met up with Phil.
We took the road to Wee Jasper and started exploring the dirt roads in the forestry and national parks. Unfortunately, the road we needed to get to our planned campsite for the night was closed so we had to loop around back towards Canberra and finally ended up at Woods Reserve for the night. It was a nice little spot down by a creek so we set up camp for the evening.
By now the temperature was cooling down a bit so it wasn't too hot. After dinner and an entertaining show put on by some of the other campers we retired to bed relatively early. All up we did about 400 kms today.
We took the road to Wee Jasper and started exploring the dirt roads in the forestry and national parks. Unfortunately, the road we needed to get to our planned campsite for the night was closed so we had to loop around back towards Canberra and finally ended up at Woods Reserve for the night. It was a nice little spot down by a creek so we set up camp for the evening.
By now the temperature was cooling down a bit so it wasn't too hot. After dinner and an entertaining show put on by some of the other campers we retired to bed relatively early. All up we did about 400 kms today.
We had organised ourselves to leave at approx 8:30 am however it was drizzling a bit so everyone had a bit of a wet pack up. We stopped at a national park day use area and put some air back in the tyres as we were probably going to be spending most of the day on bitumen roads.
We stopped off to have a look at Brayshaw's hut on the way
We stopped off to have a look at Brayshaw's hut on the way
and continued on through the Namadgi national park past Shannons Flat and stopped off in Adaminaby for fuel and an early lunch. Very good coffee and meals at the bakery.
After this we headed off along the Snowy Mountains Highway to the Long Plain Campgound where we quickly set up camp
before setting off to explore the Yarrangobilly Caves. We went on an unguided walk through one of the open caves and then had a guided walk through Jillabenan Cave which was pretty spectacular.
After this we headed off to the Thermal Pool which involved an 800 m walk down a pretty steep hill, my knees were complaining vigorously at the bottom. The pool wasn't that warm but we had a swim anyway before trudging back up the hill to the car park.
Then it was back to camp for some dinner and we sat around the campfire with our neighbours Peter and Robyn. The wind came up and it got quite cool so it was off to bed relatively early.
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