Photo op in Bredbo, campsite hunt in Cooma
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Photo op in Bredbo, before stopping in Cooma to figure out where to camp tonight.
On the way, I used the Tesla’s navigation to search for “campground” and similar. One option was The NRMA park in Jindabyne. I tapped the phone icon, to make a call. Handy to do it all from the car’s controls. Unfortunately, all their powered and unpowered sites were booked for tonight.
This looked like a job for WikiCamps. Since Tesla doesn’t support Apple CarPlay, I needed to pull over to use my phone. Whenever parking, I aim to charge, so I don’t lose any time. So, I pulled into the new-ish Tesla Superchargers in Cooma. This is the second site in Cooma, with more chargers and faster speed. But the only service nearby seemed to be KFC (again 🤔). No matter, I just wanted time to access my phone.
Snowy River Holiday Park looks great. I rang them, gave them my ETA, entered it into the navigation, added Cooma Coles as the first destination, so I could grab some supplies.
Cooma Coles also has Tesla Superchargers, but fewer and a bit slower. It does have Coles and more amenities, so I probably should have just gone straight there. Shopping into a bag, then into my fridge, I headed out towards the camp ground, next to the Snowy River.
So much treeless land, searing in the heat. I imagine early settlers saying “let’s use the cleared land for cows and sheep”. But now the livestock shelter in the thin shade of power poles, seemingly saying “where are all the bloody trees?”. A quick shade option might also be solar farms, like many I’ve seen elsewhere with sheep sheltering under them.
Next time you could try Providence Portal which sits on the Northwest corner of Lake Eucumbene.
They have a number of destination chargers there.
Then drive to Victoria via Cabramurra and Khancoban.
Nice mountain/alpine driving.