Sunday, January 15, 2012

Mountain Top

Dingo tracks

Be road safe!
So cold I can see my breath!
This morning we woke up to rain, rain and more rain. We went for a short walk down to the beach anyways and found many dingo tracks. When we returned to our car, we saw a dingo, but he ran off. Our intentions were to drive to a place called Seal Rocks, but we found the road no longer existed and had to take a ferry with our car to get to the existing road. With the weather being so dreary, we decided to head further inland to Barrington Tops National Park. This park is listed as a World Heritage Area and rises to 1600 metres. The roads were so steep at some points (or Ted was so heavily loaded) that we were going 33km/hr with it floored - “come on Ted!” This park was supposed to have the most amazing lookouts, but due to the low hanging clouds, all we saw was fog. It was a lot colder than expected up here (average temperature 9-19 degrees in the summer and snow in the winter months), so we found a shelter at one of the campsites that had a fireplace and made a fire and our home for the night. 


There’s nobody else here at this campsite – guess nobody’s as crazy as we are. It should be a lot quicker getting back down the mountain tomorrow.