Pandani Palms
Hi Folks,
Your intrepid travellers arose latish and weary after being disturbed many times in sleep last night. Bloody possums! Rummaging around in the kitchen, knocking down the pots and pans, biting the soap and then finally running across the roof of the camper. Susan, waking up and shining the torch out through the window and hissing. Tonight everything is away and the kitchen has a tarp over it. I also have the possum attitude adjusting pole leaning outside ready for use. If all else fails then it will be earplugs!
On a more cheery note it rained overnight. I have no idea how much we had, I would guess at 20mm. The cheery part is I could not find one drop of water in the camper this morning. It has always been pretty good but Queensland rain did manage to penetrate in 2010 mainly through some stitch holes in PVC where there is no canvas to swell. I did repair these with “seam sealer” and touch wood or canvas so far so good. When we returned home today the canvas was dry so it should be nicely reseasoned and a bit cleaner.
After breakfast, where I have returned to weetbix due to no microwave to make porridge (too lazy to clean a saucepan) we had coffee. I fired up the expresso machine and the result washed much of the tiredness away.
The campground at Mount Field is at the bottom of the hill. We took the 15km drive to the top up a fairly narrow and twisting dirt road. When we left the clouds had lifted and the sun was shining. It was much the same up the top although the wind was strong and there was more cloud. We decided to do a relatively short walk to Platypus Tarn. This is marked as easy and so it was although it was slippery in the descent down at the end due to all the rain. As we walked the weather gradually deteriorated. Susan already had her long rain jacket on. I put on my jacket and had to remove my boots to get my leggings on. There were a few snowflakes drifting down from time to time. We reached the lake had half an orange each and returned towards the car. After a burst of sun we had the heaviest “snow”of the day. Mount Field is a skiing area so the out of season snow was no surprise. There are a few ski lodges at the top. On our return down the hill we stopped for several short walks. These were to show the 4 types of forest found as you go up the hill.
Back at the bottom we pottered around camp and had tea. It’s now 930 and just dark, we have had some more rain and possum time approaches. Tomorrow depends on the weather. If it is crappy we will probably drive down to the Gordon Dam and if good it’s back up the hill for another walk.
I have been unable to find any reference here to glow worms, which we did see in 2007. I am unsure why they are no longer mentioned. We will check out where we saw them last time one of the evenings when the weather is better.
Anyway that’s all for now.
Night folks
Cheers Simon
Snow!
Platypus tarn
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