Namadgi: “Lucky we survived it was so tough!” -- Anne

Anne, Lesley Hodges, Bub.  Brayshaw's Hut, Namadgi National Park.
27th August 2017. These snow-pellets later turned to fluffy flakes

Looking in fine fettle but was a tough walk apparently

Lovely photos taken by Ian Pulsford (Lesley's husband), last Sunday at Namadgi National Park.  Anne since advises that it snowed in Canberra as well in the last week. To which I reply: oh well, climate change must be a hoax then... [Later: have a listen to podcast of Sam Harris talking to Joseph Romm. "What you need to know about climate change").
I love the hut! Asking Anne: what's it like inside? ANNE: Nothing inside the huts except a fireplace and possum poo on the floor.
(posted by PF)
LATER (5 Sep): Comment by Anne:
The track is called the Settlers Track. There are three old huts like the one in the pic. Either one room or two, with wind whistling through the timber slabs. Brrr! The settlers would have put newspaper or some such on the walls to try to stop the breezes blowing through, but it would have been absolutely freezing living in these tiny huts, believe me. And so tiny! No room to swing the proverbial cat -- or possum. The complete walk is only nine kilometres of mostly gently undulating country, both forested and open. We did a shortcut of six kilometres, because of the conditions.
AND A BIT LATERER (6 Sep):  More from Anne:

Namadgi National Park (just south of Canberra)

Some old proverb says that a warm man can never understand a cold man. This can be parlayed into "when you're in your warm house, you can't imagine that you'll need lots of warm clothes when you go out". Even though it's still winter. Even though we were going to a significantly higher elevation. We were complete idiots!

I know it looks as if we're well dressed for the walk, but in fact we were only just warm enough. My fingers were freezing the whole time! And wet.

But --- it was a fantastic day out. We all loved it. 

We set off with hard pellets of ice being driven into our faces by a wind blowing horizontally (what fun, hey), but that soon calmed down as we entered a eucalypt forest. No wind, and the snow turned into quite big, soft flakes. Eucalypts look beautiful with snow on them. And there were yellow wattle flowers with a dusting of snow on them which were very pretty (and an unusual sight). A huge wedge-tailed eagle flew just above our heads.

On the way back home, we came across three cars stuck on the road! One had done a 360 and ended up half in a ditch. We tried to help but couldn't, other than take the driver back to the Visitor Centre where he could ask for help. The police ended up closing the road. 

It was a great day out!