We left the caves and headed towards Jindabyne.... the landscape looked like a planet recovering from total devastation of a war.  All the trees, were dead.  Mountain , Back to Byron Bay Shire, a week in Brunswick Heads after mountain also see, Our journey begins in Tabulum of these tree skeletons... but then smaller trees growing underneath.  Apparently, a fire had come through 7 years ago and it had been so intense it had killed the trees.  The blacknesss from the fire was now gone, and all that was left was thousands of acres of white , Travels around Australia -2 Fun Loving Adventures Parents, 2 kids a 4wd and caravan tree trunks.

We visited the highest town in Australia, look at, Our Car - 2004 Nissan Patrol 3litre Turbo Diesel STL then continued on a mountain , Australian Wildlife we saw pass to Jindabyne.  Another no caravans sign... we stopped in a little town prior to entering the pass.... even the locals told us not to do it, it was too late.  We left anyway.  We drove passed huge dams that form part of the Snowy Moutnains Scheme and stopped on them to peer over.  They were very high.  There was some dude fishing in a little boat right at the bottom which looked comical.  Then we started to race through the mountains , The Fish ate my rash as fast as we could to make the most of the light... and to try and get a shot from high up of the sunset but we missed it by 20 minutes or so. 

The final hour of the drive was pretty tricky.  Very windy, steep and dark.  We made it to Thredbo and were pretty please with ourselves knowing the worst was behind us.  We even saw a couple deer crossing the road, a mother and a baby. also see, Canberra - catching up with family   We found the caravan park, and bedded down.  A guy was listening to talk back radio and sport as we set up, and must have fallen asleep to it.  I could still hear it as I drifted off after midnight that night.
Jindabyne
I spent our time in Jindabyne repairing the caravan, and doing some computing stuff, so I will leave the story of Jindabyne to Nici.  The lake beside the caravan park, was gorgeous.  Many people fished, few caught anything.  Lots of people kayacked around on it and I wished I'd had one.  Hiring one was almost as much as to buy one, so I passed.