Aussie Roadtrip: Melbourne to the Snowy Mountains

An early start out of Melbourne saw us make great ground on our first day. A good thing as it was a long drive ahead of us.

Aside from a short break in Seymour we didn’t stop until around 11 when we drove straight up to Wodonga’s Memorial service for Remembrance Day. Inside the local shopping centre we found some school kids singing Christmas carols outside Target whilst dancing the Macarena. Strange combination and newsworthy enough for Prime news!

Prior to this was "Jingle Bells" paired with the Macarena dance

Coming up to Lake Hume was a highlight of the day’s roadtrip for me. The contrast of the red dirt with the mountains, lake and its creepy dead trees is somehow captivating. We had lunch on the edge of the lake with the flies trying to eat our food and faces.

Lake Hume

Percy and Rob at Lake Hume

After lunch it wasn't long until we turned off towards Thredbo and crossed the Murray state border into NSW.

Hooray Snow Mountains!

On the road again!

Driving this long in Europe we would have probably made it from Amsterdam to Paris!

Rob’s highlight of the day was the Scammell's lookout.  Walking through the stringybarks to a lookout (which apparently received an upgrade just before the Queen’s visit in 1963 – not sure which queen, as the sign didn’t specify), we should have been able to not see Mt Kosciusko, not because of pending rainclouds (although there were many), but because it’s blocked by another hill.

Scammell's lookout

Oh stringy barks!

It was a good day on the road. Aside from the beautiful countryside we were pretty excited that we made it to Siberia in 2015 after all:

Turned out we didn't need Russian visas after all!

Haunting

We concluded the afternoon settling to hide out of the rain in a cabin in Jindabyne instead of in our tent!