Day 5 (Thursday)

We catch the first morning shuttle to Lake O'hara. It's a sensitive alpine area so they don't allow private cars, just a limited number of people via shuttle, or if you're up to it, a "short" 9km walk.

We get dropped off at the campsite which about a 10 minute walk to the lake itself. Unfortunately, the weather turns from bad to worse that day, so we decide to skip the hike and just do a walk around the lake. Bad idea... we get soaked, but luckily, we end up at the Lake O'hara lodge where it's open to the public for afternoon tea. We get to warm up and dry up by the fire, and even read books from their interesting library for a couple of hours.

We then walk back to our cozy little campsite and take advantage of the facilities which include a relatively nice (but non-flushable) bathrooms, manual water pump, covered eating and cooking area and sink. We make a wood fire, then dinner, and then, almost lose the dinner because we put it on top of the stove where the heat promptly melts the bottom of the packaging. :-)

There are a few other people at the site but few enough that we get to keep a table to ourselves and get to hang our stuff to dry on the walls. After dinner, we hang out at the camp where it's cold but cozy and watch Appleseed on the PSP. Unfortunately, it runs out of batteries before we finish the movie and my DS won't even start because of the cold batteries. That should teach us not to bring electronics camping, hehehe.