Finally, we committed to a weekend at Cradle. We'd talked about it, hoped we would make it, but finally decided to 'just do it'. Boy were we glad we did. On arrival to our accommodation we were greeted by a number of little fat pademelon. B1 had a wonderful time photographing and getting acquainted.
We stayed at the Wilderness Village in comfortable cottages and were kept cozy through the cold night. We were super excited to wake up to a blanket of snow (albeit thin, it had snowed!)
Statistics show a mean of 5.3 days of sunshine for the month of Ausgust and we were lucky enough to catch one of those days. We headed out on a hike up to Marion's Lookout; two adults and four kids, at about 10am. After, a short shuttle trip we found ourselves in the midst of the world's most accredited world heritage area.(It meets more criteria than any other area in the world.) Our trek began at Ronny Creek carpark. The children were enthralled by the thick layer of ice they were able to pick up from the puddles which lay around. 
Statistics show a mean of 5.3 days of sunshine for the month of Ausgust and we were lucky enough to catch one of those days. We headed out on a hike up to Marion's Lookout; two adults and four kids, at about 10am. After, a short shuttle trip we found ourselves in the midst of the world's most accredited world heritage area.(It meets more criteria than any other area in the world.) Our trek began at Ronny Creek carpark. The children were enthralled by the thick layer of ice they were able to pick up from the puddles which lay around. 
Not 20 steps into our hike and we find a family of wombats! The girls played fairies by Crater Falls and B2 found it hard work at this leg of the hike. 
But quickly pepped up when a light snow fell.
We continued on up to Wombat Hill, stoped for lunch and then B1 took off up to Marion's lookout - scaring his mother half to death. You will know why if you ever venture up to the lookout. We were delighted with the view once we made it and the children were delighted to find enough snow to make a 'snow castle?'
But quickly pepped up when a light snow fell.We continued on up to Wombat Hill, stoped for lunch and then B1 took off up to Marion's lookout - scaring his mother half to death. You will know why if you ever venture up to the lookout. We were delighted with the view once we made it and the children were delighted to find enough snow to make a 'snow castle?'
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