Showing posts with label narooma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label narooma. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 March 2008

Narooma to Jindabyne

Our plan for today is to head inland towards the Snowy Mountains. But first of all we stop at Mystery Bay, which is a stunning spot, with a beautiful beach, caves and good fishing by the looks of it as well. There is a good little camping spot here as well, which is definitely worth a return visit some day.





From Mystery Bay we made haste for Tilba, sped on by Mandy whose smile was hard to subdue after she realised it was on our route. The simple reason being that Tilba has a cheese factory, and a good one at that.



Tilba seems like a really nice little village, like Mogo it has lots of crafts shops and one really good gallery, which Mandy felt drawn to, despite the lure of the cheese factory at the end of the street.

We bought a neat selection of cheese, stuck it in our freshly chilled cooler and hit the road again.

The next stop was Cooma, which on the map looked a likely spot to stop. The inland air hit us, at a full 35 degrees, with no nice coastal wind to ease the heat. When we reached it though we decided we'd just have a coffee and move on to Jindabyne.


I think the B.Y.O. bit should be G.Y.O. (get your own) for full grump effect.

We got to Jindabyne in the late afternoon and the heat was still intense. After a wander we found a spot for a drink and then got some food to take back to the cabin to let Mandy watch a full episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares America.

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Kangaroo Valley to Narooma

Our initial destination today was to be Bateman's Bay, but, after stopping there for about 10 minutes we decided it wasn't really for us. A bit too touristy and boaty.

We had heard good things about Mogo Zoo, so we decided to take a break from driving and visit it.
It might not have the scale of Taronga, but it has a good atmosphere, and plenty of rare species.

Prepare for another plethora of cute and not so cute faces.



Confused Spider Monkey

'If I only had a heart'

Something about this marmoset reminds me of 'Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome'



After the zoo we headed into Mogo village. It's really just a single street with all kinds of craft shops on either side. Mandy smelled out a good jewellery shop, while my instincts led me to the Mogo bottle shop. An excellent selection of 'craft' beers which I bought several of. The best of which was 'Charlotte' by the Snowy Mountain Brewery, a new find for me.

Not really knowing where we were going to spend the night, we drove a little bit further south and eventually settled on Narooma. We got ourselves a little cabin for 60 bucks, which was well worth the money as it meant we could 'recharge' our freezer bricks for the cooler. The necessity of this will become clear tomorrow.