Kia Kapers

Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007 at 16:14
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We have returned from our tour of the Snowy River - although no real 4WDing was done we had a great time. The Sportage towing our new camper trailer performed beautifully - our progress up hills, as expected, was 'relaxed', to be generous, but other than that we had no trouble at all.
A couple of nights at Buchan (nice caravan park, freezing cold pool) then on to Willis after a side trip to McKillops (great swimming, disappointing camping so we did not stay).
We got smoked out of Willis so went on to Thredbo Diggings which is a very nice spot to camp - after a couple of nights we had a day at Thredbo and conquered Australia's highest mountain (have to pump it up a bit) then on to Geehi.
This was our favourite spot - great scenery and swimming holes. This was where we did the only 4WD of the trip - Geehi Walls as described in the Lewis/Savage book.
After 3 nights we decamped and after a long day arrived at the Tarra Valley (south of Traralgon) for a week.
We were blown away by the scenery along the Barry Way and will certainly head back there again.
Our only real fright was on the one lane section of road to McKillops - an "L" plater coming around a blind bend at a fair rate of knots only just pulled up in time - judging from the look on his face he got a fair fright himself!
On the advice of Mike Harding (and others) we did not go south of Tom Groggin but stuck to the main roads (such as they are) - thanks for your help guys.
This trip has really whet our appetites so rest assured there will be questions in the future (including those about a bigger car - although the Kia performed faultlessly we have always known we would need something bigger in the future).
IanM
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