Day 2
Travel Location: Beechworth,Australia
After yesterday’s blog, we sorted the bed out. The bed is on top and the room between head and roof rather tiny. We are not even able to crawl on all four. After trying to sleep for a couple of hours, Adelina decided that it was too claustrophobic. She got out of the van to breath and decided to sleep on the downstairs bed. Yeap, we have now a two bedroom camper. Next time, we try to sleep both downstairs and if that does not work, Adelina will sleep down and me on top.
This morning we got a wakeup call from Britz. The lady was able to organize a mechanic. However, after talking to him, he was only able to look at the camper in the afternoon. That of course conflicted with our travel plans. Guess what, we decided to drive on. So far, the camper has not make the same noise, but it seems the gear box does not sound that good either. We most probably let the campervan be checked in Melbourne.
We started our travel with a pancake breakfast at Heidi’s Austrian Teahouse in Cooma. The pancakes were rich with fruit, cream and sugar… absolutely delicious, recommended if you drive through Cooma. It’s at the end of Cooma direction towards Jindabyne. After the healthy breakfast, we headed from Cooma to Beechworth via Kosciusko National Park. We crossed the Park in about two hours. The views were just phenomenal. Parts of the park contained the remainder of the big bush fire. The trees were all white and without leaves. Some bend towards the street and it looks like claws that try to reach the car. We think that the trees will come alive at night and move in search for prey of poor lost drivers.
We saw two dams, one of which was Tooma Dam. The dams are surrounded by the mountains and from the drive through the windy roads over the peaks and down the valley many pretty views can be taken. We crossed the Murray River, which is at least in part the border between Victoria and NSW. The river here is still rather small, and we hope to see a bigger part later in the journey.
We reached Beechworth around 4.30 pm and after shopping for our dinner, we headed to the Lake Sambell Campervan Park. We got an unpowered site for tonight at the border of the lake. The weather is sunny and no wind, ideally for a glass of champagne and a bottle of red later on. Today we put up the tent. That means a sunshade with a fly net on the side. The flies were annoying us as soon as we got out of the car.
