Victorian High Country Christmas 2011, Day 1.

Our tree so Santa finds us.

The first set up.

Camp under the trees.

Heading off!!!

We got packing just after we got up and were finished and showered and ready to leave with coffee in hand at 11am.  It was a little later then we had hoped but it didn’t matter not one little bit cause we were now in holiday mode.

Our first stop was to drop a little gift to Linda, Chris and Buzz they were not home so we left it on the door with our well wishes and headed for the Hammo’s place.  We were lucky they were just pulling in the drive as we did so we handed over our little gift said our final farewells and hit the road.  From here we stopped at Bundanoon servo for fuel and a sambo for lunch and pushed on.  We then did another quick fuel stop at Gundagai as we were not sure when our next fuel would be.  We pointed out nose south east from here and headed for Batlow.

We pulled into Batlow about 4pm and headed straight through cause we could now feel the joy of setting camp settling in. It takes only about 30min of dirt road before you get to the start of Blowering Dam, from here it can take another 30min to drive to the other end of the camping areas. We were surprised how quiet each of the camping areas were.  We looked around at a number of different spots but alas ended up almost in the exact same spot as last time.  Under beautiful big trees, flat grassy spot with views of the lake and mountains.  

It didn’t take long to set camp and there was a lovely breeze blowing keeping us cool. I even got time to set up our little make shift Christmas tree (just for you Mum).  As we cooked dinner the wind died off and it was still.  We decided to put up more shelter as off in the distance there were clouds.  Just as we got it up the wind turned and boy did it blow hard?  We battened   down the hatches secured everything got our things organised in the tent for we thought it was going to dump down. 

We sat out and watched the storm rolling in there was lightening and the clouds were very dark but slow moving.  I don’t know if I have ever camped in such strong winds it was blowing and hard.  As it got too dark to see we made sure everything was safe and headed to bed.  As we got in it rained just a little but the wind blew hard for hours.

Us2Martins at Blowering Dam.