Oh boy, what a day! We both didn't get much sleep - Bridal Veil has a weird microclimate, I guess because of the altitude and surrounding areas, and experiences bitterly cold evenings and frost-covered, misty mornings (there's probably a very good reason it's got that name!). Last night, for example, the temperature plummeted to below freezing - in August! I was so cold that I spent most of the night alternating between shivering and trying to rub some feeling in...

Last night I slept in the car. We'd pitched a tent at Sunset Campground in King's Canyon, then gone to have a shower and dinner at the Grove centre. When we returned at about 9:30pm, there was a large, extended Mexican family that had just arrived with 3 cars and were getting ready to set up 4 tents only 2 metres away, had just started a fire and were wanting to BBQ food at 10pm at night! My experience from the previous night at Potwisha was noisy, to say the le...