Rain on Lake St. Clair
It is very cold and wet today. We arrived here at Lake St. Clair, at 200 m the deepest lake in Australia, just shortly after noon. It was raining heavily all the way here on the drive from New Norfolk. We stopped at a campsite by Brady’s Lake, but it was bare with no shelter (we’re not sure why it was checkmarked as a good spot in our campsite guide) so didn’t stay there. Instead we drove in to Lake St. Clair national park, where we were able to get a powered site.
Thank goodness for the electricity, as it is running the heater in our motorhome. Right now it is about 3 ºC, raining (there was sleet this afternoon) and generally not very nice. We’re staying here for two days, as we hope it will clear up tomorrow or the day after so that we can do some hiking. Today we stayed indoors, read, and played Scrabble (David beat Enid, but only by 5 points).
When we booked in at the visitor centre there were a number of backpackers there. This area is the start of a number of longer hikes through the Tasmanian “wilderness”. I do not envy them their night if they are out today, as the weather is truly miserable.