Jindabyne
Travel Blogs from Jindabyne, Australia
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The Bus in Snowy River
... Laurence pulled over, we all piled out (dressed completely inappropriately) and threw handfuls of snow at each other. Snowball fight! In Australia! The plan now was to go early to our night's destination, a small farm in the middle of the Victorian ...
Goulburn to Jindabyne via Canberra - Day 232
... was planned from scratch, I could certainly tell the layout had been well designed as I drove through Australia's ultra clean capital . Visited a couple of elevated lookouts on hills surrounding the city. Canberra looks even more impressive ...
Fom Sun to Snow in 2 weeks!
... up with friends and family whilst I was home, the 6 weeks spent in the UK was more than long enough to realise that Australia is now home. Although I'm not saying I will never return, I'm more than happy here at the moment and have started a new life. ...
Snowy Mountains and end of Canberra
... of adrenaline! We started our walk towards the lookout and finally decided to do THE big walk, climbing Mt Kosciuzko, Australia's highest summit (2228m). Walking uphill in the deep snow is not east but it was an amazing 13km walk!. After this, ...
Mt. Kosciuszko
Mt. Kosciuszko After a little drive from Canberra we made it to the kosiciuszko national park. This is where the ski resorts of NSW are. We thought it would be a nice place to go on our way down the coast as it is the tallest mountain in Aus. Aftere ...
12 From the Snow to the Sea
Ahhh... another long weekend, a time to go bush, hang out with mates and relax over fine food and gurgling babies after a day of snow shoe-ing... so why didn't we get what we ordered? Instead what we got was gale force winds and then white out... oh ...
2135km Road trip around the Snowy Mountains
... Kosciusko New years eve 2009 dawned a bright sparkly 24 degree day so we figured this was the day to climb Australia's highest mountain Mount Kosciusko 2228m - pronounced Kozzyosco but coincidently we read in an unrelated book it is really pronounced in ...
Bobsleigh without the snow
... top of the chairlift, its great for walking as its pretty much a plateau. We headed first for a viewing area of Mount Kosciuszko - Australia'a highest mountain (our plan was to climb it the next day) After that, we walked to view a glacier lake and then ...
Snowy Mountains without Snow
This morning we were up early to see the view over lakes Entrance in the morning. It the longest stretch of beach in Australia - 90 mile (beating 80 mile beach by 10 miles!) It was a little dark but the view of the beach and the entrance to the close ...
Australian Snowy Mountains (NSW).
Stress relief at its best. Pity the backpack was so heavy!!! Great part of the world. Even made it to Valantines Hut. Pics: www.picasaweb.google.com/FigielP/SnowyMountainsApr09# ...
Snowy Mountains - strecha Australie
Dneska sme meli v planu nenarocnej trek v Blue Mountains s vystupem na nejvyssi horu kontinentu Mt. Kosciuszko (2228 m). Ale jak nas bylo 10 tak to slo dost tezkopadne, nez sme najedli, sbalili a dojeli kousek z kempu na zacatek treku tak bylo pul ...
Jindabyne
... 2 is quite nice too. And the lake is gorgeous, despite being made for Hydroelectric power, and gave us our first "beac" sunbathing experience. Also had time to head to nearby Threadbo in "the Alps", close to Australia's highest mountain, ...
No Petrol, No Hope!
... Roadtrip-Song). Wir fuhren an den Fuß der Snowy Mountains und schlugen unser Nachtlager an einem wunderschönen Bergsee nahe Jindabyne auf. Ich musste sofort ins Wasser und lernte eine nette Australierin kennen mit der ich eine Runde in ihrem Kajak ...
Jindabyne - Snowy Mtns
... gave us a jump start and agreed to follow behind us as it was hard to see our tail lights. We made it as far as Jindabyne before conking out again. We tried to tow it to the Snowy Mtns hostel but couldn't. Eventually we pushed it up onto the grass and ...
My 1st Oz Experience
So these are pics from the first leg of my Oz Experience from Melbourne to Sydney. Despite all these 19 British boys being complete shits most of the time, I had a really good ...
Canberra, Jindabyne and Kosciuszko Ntl Park
... this town from an Australian movie we had seen some time ago and it is a neat town, with a huge lake - the lake Jindabyne - the original city was actually flooded by the lake when Australian Government built one of its nine dams within the Snowy Mountains ...
Snow beautiful snow.
We were all very excited to be going back to the snow today. Last year we stayed at Smiggins Hotel but we couldn't ski at Smiggins as there wasn’t enough snow. We caught the shuttle bus to Perisher each day which only took 5 minutes. So we were ...
Lots of fun skiing.
Breakfast was at 7.30. Thankfully we could make a cuppa in the dining room anytime. So we didn't miss out on our early morning ritual. We just had to carry it down the hall. After a much too hearty breakfast we got our ski gear on and hit the ...
Snowboarding and skiing in the snowy mountains
... Muscle soak to relax those tired skiing muscles and all toiletries including moisturiser. The property has spectacular views overlooking Lake Jindabyne with a huge deck where Rosellas, Magpies and Galahs join you for breakfast. The house has a nice and ...
More fun in the snow.
Day two of skiing is always a slow start. We were still keen but we were all stiff and tired. After another big breakfast off we went again. We did some more runs before their lessons. They had a different instructor today. Tom, who was funnier than the ...
Mt. Kosciuzko NP
... vorher einmal. Es hat uns damals sehr gut gefallen und wir wussten auch dass es ein guter Ausgangspunkt ist zum Biken und Wandern. In Jindabyne gibt es fast kein Laden, in dem man nicht Ski`s mieten kann. Von hier aus ist man in einer halben Stunde in ...
Still Snowy Mountains
... car managed the steep climb at Talbingo to the top of the ranges with ease and from there we enjoyed the scenic drive to Jindabyne. Highlights along the way was the deserted gold rush town of Kiandra, which also had Australia's first ski field, and The ...
Jindabyne Rain
... a pub or two after the big one up to the summit of Mount Kosciusko the following day and firm commitments to attend the Jindabyne festival being set up for Saturday night, complete with a rodeo, carnival rides and a concert were sworn to. And then the ...
Austraila
I live in Australia in Jindabyne N.S.W my home snowfield is perisher i love it the mountain is sweet the parks are cool and the people are nice and pipe is ...
Capitals and Snowy Mountains
... is practically full and lots more melt water is to come down. Tonight, we are staying in the Discovery Holiday Park on Lake Jindabyne. It’s probably one of the best parks we have been in – a lakeside position and with Jacuzzi and sauna in ...
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