The next stop on the tour, part of which I got to drive... I found it to be not all that challenging to drive on the left hand side of the road. It just takes a bit more concentration. Staying in the lane and turns and things like that were no big deal. What I could not do was take care of other things wile driving like the stereo or the AC. I had to leave that to Jo.The first stop in the park were the Yarrangabilly Caves. They are limestone and so there was the fabulous sound of dripping water. We got there late in the day so we got to enjoy one of them all by ourselves, which was great.
The next day we drove down to Charlotte's Pass and walked to the highest point in Australia, Mt. Kosciusko (2228 meters, or about 7300 feet). I say walk because we walked (9km on way)along a service road most of the way. The views from the top were amazing.
On our way down we passed a middle age couple running to the top. Just when you feel like you are not being lazy and are getting out and getting some exercise... Since we were already being slackers we decided to go all the way and we got a ride back down to the parking lot with one of the park rangers in his truck... Hey, it was getting late.
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There's a really cool historic archaeological site called Kiandra (right near there, around Cabramurra), which was a European/Chinese/Aboriginal mining town with it's heighday in the 1860's. Quite the fun dig, but the entire area was still black from the huge bushfires that swept through there in '03! Looks much better now :)
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