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Camp #6 – 2025; the quick getaway
Posted on June 2, 2025 by Davey
Picture this, it’s 6:45pm, it’s freezing and you’re starving. You’ve just jumped in your truck with six fish cocktails and chips sitting on the passenger seat. You start driving and the food aroma engulfs the cabin, your mouth begins to salivate, the temptation is too much so you reach over rummaging through the packaging and…
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Camp #5 – 2025; 4wding to pretty places
Posted on April 14, 2025 by Davey
Friday night at ‘Wang’ is starting to become a common theme! Knock off work Friday arvo and head up the highway, stop for a feed at Blackheath fisho and arrive at Lake Wallace around 9’ish, freeze your arse off setting up the tent and then warm up by the fire sipping a beverage… Once daylight…
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Camp #4 – 2025; the F-Off NPWS edition
Posted on April 7, 2025 by Davey
Imagine travelling 25km’s along a fire trail to discover the route to the campsite you were headed for had a trail closure that was not documented on the National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) website. Then having to turn back and travel 3.5 hours to reach an alternate campsite! This is the kind of organisation…
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Camp #3 – 2025; Touring the Upper Turon
Posted on March 7, 2025 by Davey
Getting away on a late February Friday arvo after a long work week is a pretty great feeling, stopping off at a lookout on Mt Victoria to eat a burger and chips makes it even better! And what a sweet spot it is, overlooking the Megalong Valley on a picture perfect late afternoon enjoying the…
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Camp #2 – 2025; Straya Day (Part 3)
Posted on February 20, 2025 by Davey
Another cool high country morning, with the sun rising over the trees in the yonder the prospect of a cracking day was on the cards and so was a sleep in 🙂 Ghost Gully with all its niceties is likely a campground I will drive through but not stop by in any future trips to…
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Camp #2 – 2025; Straya Day (Part 2)
Posted on February 12, 2025 by Davey
You know you’re onto a good thing when it’s so relaxed and chilled that you don’t care to get out of bed. Waking up to a cracker of a day, nothing beats it and the sleep in was well worth it with the amazing view from my doorstep… The night was cool with temps dropping…
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Camp #2 – 2025; Straya Day (Part 1)
Posted on February 4, 2025 by Davey
It’s Friyay 24th January and work is done and dusted, the boot scoot to Goulburn commences to meet Brad for a quick feed and then off for the second leg of the journey to Denison Campground in the Snowy Mountains. In all honesty, and you can judge for yourself – the burgers are better at…
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Camp #1 – 2025; WTF happened to 2024?
Posted on January 12, 2025 by Davey
And just like that I’ve skipped almost all of 2024 and a major chunk of the tail end of 2023. So what happened? Truth be known I just got lazy 🙁 Let’s make up for it in 2025 and I’ll in time backdate history. In my mind the first camp of 2025 was going to…
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Days 6, 7, 8 & 9; Tom Groggin to Denison
Posted on November 18, 2024 by Davey
With the Upper Murray River starting to swell, the weather crisp and gloomy, but clearing we left Tom Groggin with haste. Our next stop Sundance Bakehouse Jindabyne and then pushing through Adaminaby to Denison Campground. We arrived at Denison just shy of 4pm with firewood to burn and a darkening outlook on the horizon, our…
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Days 4 & 5; Geehi to Tom Groggin
Posted on November 12, 2024 by Davey
The trip out of Geehi to Tom Groggin campground is what could be classed as a typical Snowy Mountains fanfare consisting of rolling hills, more rolling hills, S bends galore and plenty of greenery typically consisting of gum trees, tussock and weeds. Depending on how many stops for photos and nature breaks it takes the…
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