Australia's Highest Peak

A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in my office, working extremely hard when an email popped up in my work inbox, from Joe.  He sent a message saying "interested in a trip to climb the highest point in Australia"?  I walked over to his office and said, book it we will do it this break.  And so he did.  We flew into Canberra, the capital city and drove about 200 km south to a town called Jindabyne and stayed at Lake Crackenback (yes, I am serious).  It was actually a pretty nice place.

We flew there on a Friday and returned Monday morning, so it was a short trip.  Anyway, Saturday first thing we drove to the trailhead and had shorts and all our stuff on to do this 21km hike, it was 8 deg. C and you couldn't see but 50 ft. in front of you, so we turned around and headed back to Lake Crackenback, where we didn't do a whole lot.  Joe went searching for wombats, but thats about it.  Sunday, we tried again and even though it looked pretty horrible where we were staying it was clearing near the trailhead.  Because of the clouds and haste to get to the trail head, we forgot the sunblock, Joe now has more freckles because of it.  It was a good hike, and a change of scenery.  We spent Monday in Canberra, which wasn't that exciting, I think the capital buildings in Michigan are more impressive as well as Lansing as a city.  Needless to say we went to the airport early, exhausted and stinging from our sunburned legs.

We have several more trips planned between now and July, we've got one year to smash out all the rest of the places we want to visit. :)

Hope winter is treating you well!