MONDAY 27TH - BEN LOMOND

As camp sites go, tonight's is a cracker. We are not the only ones in that there are three other campers here but they are several hundred metres away and we have our portion of it to ourselves. As I am typing this, the adjacent river is babbling away as it flows through a shallow section. We haven't yet seen a platypus but they are bound to be here. There is no phone coverage so the uploading won't happen until tomorrow.

Once again, we have a camp site with ensuite. Very flash.

 

We are only about 50 klms from the east coast, between the coast and Ben Lomond.

After setting up camp, we travelled about 40 klms further west over mostly dirt mountain roads to get to Ben Lomond. There is no summer activity apart from a bit of maintenance and the infrastructure is a little modest by comparison with mainland ski fields but the scenery is spectacular.

 

By the look of this sign, you would have to say that they don't expect the snow to ever get very deep.

As we were leaving the plateau, a friendly echidna popped out to farewell us.

We found a swimmer! Very rare in Tasmania, even in February.

 

Tomorrow we head back to the coast and down to Freycinet National Park where we have a site reserved for two nights. Understandably it is pretty popular and you need to book, even for a national park site.