What time is it there?!

Another slightly strange place. Yet more spectacular scenery as the backdrop to a blue-green coloured lake. But other than that, er, almost nothing.

The lake is about 5km up a hill from the town itself. At the lake there is one very expensive hotel overlooking the lake (think blokes in slightly ridiculous outfits waiting to park your car for you on arrival), and behind it another much older but much cheaper hotel (where we stayed).

Driving back down the hill to the ‘town’ however, we found the shopping mall (small supermarket, gift shop, camera shop, outdoor shop and a few cafes) and a load of hotel/lodge type places. Each of the hotels seemed to have it’s own restaurant which was open to the public, but other than that we could find nothing. No ‘high street’ with tacky gift shops, bars and restaurants, not even any sign of any local residential areas (which may have explained why the hotel staff seemed to live onsite).

The only other things we found were a small area of businesses that seemed to do tyres, exhausts & vehicle repairs, and an old station that had been turned into a restaurant (that was closed!). Fortunately we had only really planned to use the town as a base for a couple of nights while we explored the surrounding national park areas.

# posted by Mark @ Thursday, October 06, 2005