Geehi has to be one of my favourite places to camp in Australia. It's about an hour from Thredbo, where Australia's highest mountain is, and not an easy drive - lots of curves and downhills, but you get here eventually and it's well worth it. The first section is all neat bays along the river for caravans, campers and tents, but if you go across the river crossing, you end up at Behr flats, a vast open area with the river on the edge to camp by. Which is what we do, setting up with this view.
And on the other side, behind us, this view - yep, we do love looking at our Defender. WE've worked hard on it so I guess you can understand!
We set up the hammock with this view, and pretty much don't move for two days. The weather is sublime - 22 or so, no wind. Just perfect. WE read, sleep, cook, collect firewood, go searching for wombats under the moonlight (there's som big ass holes, so we know they're around - and indeed we find them, dark shaped barrels waddling about)
Even the view from the bed is incredible. WE opted NOT to open up the fly wire as we knew it was rare that you'd be in a spot without insects. It doesn't matter - you can still see through the wire for this beautiful view.
I make some beautiful tofu tacos. The ducks come in and want to eat too - they're fairly tame and used to campers. There's actually two kinds of ducks - these ones are more friendly, and the others more shy. We watch them bathing, swimming, diving into the water and they amuse us for hours. Wildlife is better than Netflix.
At dusk the kangaroos come down as the ducks settle. It's hilarious - they take fright at a leaf moving, and we love watching them as the light fades completely by the sky. One finds a large mug of half drunk tea by the hammock and takes a drink before I can stop him. I'm sure he'd be up all night anyway.
At the other end of the flat there's a hut which was built by hand in the late 40's, and a toilet. A lot of people camp down that end but we try to avoid people as it's quieter that way. A lot of people drive down to it just to see it, and there's a lot of other huts in the area that people take time out to see them.
We go and walk across the river to see another hut on the second day. The water is freezing but I have my special hiking shoes on from Zorali that make it super easy. I love them so much - they have spongy soles and dry fast.
On the last night the sunset is beautiful, highlighting hte mountains in the distance. This time of night can last forever if you're paying attention and not on your phone.
Another reason we're paying attention as we are watching two platypus fish and swim and play in the water. They're notoriously shy, so the best we could get was this shot, which I assure you is actually a platypus. So, so cool - we love them!
We really, really don't want to leave, but all good things must come to an end. We leave early in the morning to climb Australia's highest mountain.
Except we don't climb it, because the wind chill and speed is so intense that they shut the chairlifts and suggest that people don't go up there. I have to say I'm relieved as I'm never keen on climbing uphill. It's a good seven hours and I dont think my hip is up for it. Still, we can always go up another time - and it was worth hanging out at Geehi an extra day anyway.
With Love,
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