Lookout on Snowy Mountain Highway

We continued our journey South East again this morning, heading first to Cooma then onto the marvellously named town of Nimmitable via the Snowy Mountains Highway.
The Snowy Mountains Highway is one of those roads that’s a joy to drive with switchbacks, steep climbs and descents as you cross the Great Dividing Range. At some points you are up at over 1500 metres above sea level with some fantastic views and big drop offs as the road hugs the sides of the mountains.
From Nimmitable we headed South East for a few kilometres before beginning our first “off Tarmac” part of the trip. Following an assortment of graded tracks and four wheel drive only fire tracks we wound our way south into the South East Forest National Park. In all the off road tracks amounted to around 40k with about half of that being 4WD only. Historically the Cattleman’s Track that we followed was a trading route to the coast. The Postman’s Track that made up the last part of the route was a postal service pack horse route.
Towards the southern edge of the park we pulled up to set up camp for the night at Six Mile Creek, another free camp site created and maintained by the national park. No phone service in this remote spot – we’ve only seen 2 other vehicles since we left the tarmac about 4 hours ago and we are the only people at the camp site. Hopefully I’ll upload this post tomorrow if we find somewhere with a phone mast !
We’ve not decided for certain on tomorrow’s destination, we’re considering heading South East again to the coast. With a week left before we need to get to Melbourne for the F1 we still have some time to kill and there’s lots to see and experience in this area of NSW and further south in Victoria.