Vic High Country Trip, Day 7 and 8

We slept in a bit and had brekkie before going for a drive at around 9 am. After driving across the Murray river at a shallow crossing we found our original target, the Davies Plain track closed, so we went exploring a couple of other tracks.
After driving the Tom Groggin Track and Paddy Joy track, among others we had a bit of lunch and stopped off for a look at Wheelers Creek hut. 

In the afternoon we found a few other nice tracks and then ended up on the mount Pinnibar track which led to the top of Mt Pinnibar and a spectacular view. 

Today's tracks all had some very steep sections so there was a lot of low range driving, but the track surface was pretty good so while slow it wasn't that hard.
Then it was back to camp for a swim in the creek to cool off but as there was a fire ban we didn't have a camp fire to sit around after dinner so we headed off to bed relatively early.

Today the others were going to do the walk to the top of Mt Kosciuszko but as my knees were playing up I would amuse myself around Thredbo. So we had a sleep in and a lazy breakfast before driving off to Thredbo where we couldn't find a park down near the chair lift station so Phil and I ended up parking up the top car park and walking down to the village.
We got Day tickets to the chair lift and headed up with all the mountain bikers. 

After coffee and morning tea at the restaurant at the top of the chair lift the others started walking to the top of Kosciusko while headed back down to the village.
I wandered around having a look and had lunch from the bakery down by the stream. 

There was a bit of rain but I found a spot under cover and wrote up some blog entries for posting while I had a reasonable signal. When the others came back from the walk we headed back to camp for a swim in the creek to cool off. No campfire as we still had a fire ban, do it ended up being an early night in bed.

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