We had something like a 12 hour turn-around time at home in Sydney between arriving home from Melbourne and commencing our drive down to Thredbo for a few days of camping.  We washed clothes, dried them and repacked, though this time we packed the really really warm clothes since the nights at Thredbo were forecast to be very chilly indeed.

We arrived at the campground Thredbo Diggings at about 5:30 pm  and had just enough light to set up our campsite.  Nathan was so excited to be there that he ran around screaming and pointing at ducks and trying his best to help us set up the tent.

We had a lovely few days there.  The days were warm and the nights were pretty cold.  The first night there we had a heavy frost, the second night wasn’t as cold but still would have been in the low single digits as far as the temperature was concerned and the following nights weren’t so cold.  We had a couple of wet nights with wonderful lightening and thunder, though spending time in a 2 person tent with two adults and an active toddler isn’t my idea of fun.

We did a couple of nice but short walks as well.  One day we went to Rainbow Lake, only a 3 km return trip.  Another day we went to Porcupine Rocks and back from Perrisher which was a 5 km walk.  Although the weather was threatening rain, it was a really really nice walk and one I hadn’t done before.  In fact, the cloud formations made for some stunning photographs.

Now for some (ahem…lots of) photos:

Car travel is always easiest when Nathan is asleep!

Nathan enjoyed giving the ducks his lunch

Helping daddy collect water from the river.

Our campsite one chilly morning.

Our little rock climber.

Daddy and Nathan having fun at Rainbow Lake after a picnic lunch.

Bushwalking at Porcupine Rocks lookout.

Daddy showing Nathan where our campsite was from the top of Porcupine Rocks.

Our little bushwalker.

It’s a long walk for little legs.

KANGAROO!!!

Easter bunny thief (that’s Andrew’s easter egg!).

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