The trip to Kosciusko was an adventure if anything. Unfortunately the first stop we had to make was to the mechanics as we realised the night before we couldn’t open the campervan sliding door from the inside, so we had to get this fixed. Luckily it was faulty and not our fault, so we didn’t have to pay anything for it and was there for only 30 minutes getting it fixed. We then started to make our way to the National Park.
We stopped about an hour after driving by a lovely little stream where we had some breakfast and made some sandwiches for the journey. We definitely felt like right campers at this point as we had to wash our bowels we used for the cereal in the stream!!
After our quick pit stop we drove for quite a few hours not really knowing where we were driving to. We googled mapped Kosciusko National Park for our destination but not really aware that it was a massive place and there were lots of different parts of the park we could go to. We ended up finding a campsite in the middle of the National Park so we googled mapped this camping site and began to drive there.
The drive towards the National Park was really beautiful full of fields and trees that went on for miles. We were lucky enough to also have blue skies the whole way so this made the drive even better. As we approached the National Park we begun to realise how much damage the bush fires had done to it. It was interesting to see but very sad to see how damaged the nature around us was.
We then began to worry as the road we were meant to go down to eventually reach the campsite had a road closed sign. However being the idiots we are we decided to head down anyway to check it wasn’t an old sign. We went down this road which went on for about 50k, the trees were all burnt out and everything was basically black apart from the road. Unfortunately, we met the end of the road and it was closed so we had to turn all the way back. We soon realised that we couldn’t reach the campsite we wanted to go to so we had to make a plan B.
Plan B was to drive to a campsite half way between the point we were at and Mount Kosciusko so it would make it a bit quicker to get to the mountain in the morning. We drove in the pitch black, down windy lanes and lots of kangaroos jumping out. It was definitely an experience we wouldn’t forget. Once we arrived at the campsite there were only a couple of other campervans there so it was very quiet and a bit spooky actually. The campsite was a free campsite so that meant gross toilets, no showers or facilities. It probably wasn’t wise of us to arrive at night not knowing where we were and what was around .. but never mind! We quickly cooked some dinner in the camper, got into bed and went to sleep.
The next morning we woke up and wow were we shocked at where we had come to … we opened the blinds in the campervan and the bluest most glistening lake was about 10m in front of us. This was the most amazing surprise to wake up to. We ate breakfast by the lake and took in the breathtaking views that surrounded us.
Once we had packed up the campervan we started to make our way to mount Kosciusko. After this we would be heading more towards the east coast … next stop the beautiful Jervis Bay!
Adventure Awaits... 