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Lightening Creek Camp - VIC

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Free Camp

Position

DEG: -36.150379 147.219299

DMS: 36º 09' 1.37" S 147º 13' 9.48" E

UTM: 55 H 5999350mN 519727mE

Altitude: 623.85m

Place Type

Camps & Accom - Free Camp

Location

198.59kms SouthWest of Canberra - Driving 393 km (4 hours 10 mins)
272.79kms NorthEast of Melbourne - Driving 377 km (3 hours 59 mins)
747.58kms North of Hobart - Driving 1112 km (1 day 3 hours)

Address & Contact

Sirls Rd
Jarvis Creek VIC 3700

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Information

A very pleasant, remote, small (1 BBQ & table) but sloping picnic ground situated in a small mountain-top valley. Grassed and green. Shaded by white trunked Southern Blue Gum and surrounded by a mixed sub-alpine forest. Kangaroos and wombats are common. Spring wildflowers. Small mossy dam on a small intermittent creek nearby.
Access off Plateau Rd (narrow, twisty, gravel), west 0.5k on Sirls Tk (formed, narrow), left 0.2k down Lightning Cr Tk (formed, steep, narrow).

PlaceID	102112

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Weather

Closest Weather Station

Hume Reservoir at 17/09:00am EST

Distance from Lightening Creek Camp 17.51km W

Temperature	Feels Like	Rel. Humidity	Dew Point	Pressure	Rainfall	Wind Direction	Wind Speed	Gusts
10.5°C	7.8°C	81%	7.4°C	hPa	6.0mm	NNW	11km/hr 6knots	km/hr knots

Closest Climatic Station

Hume Reservoir

Distance from Lightening Creek Camp 17.51km W

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean Max. °C	30.8	30.4	27.0	21.7	16.7	13.0	12.2	14.2	17.3	21.0	25.0	28.5
Mean Min. °C	16.4	16.5	13.8	10.0	7.0	4.8	3.9	4.9	6.7	9.1	11.7	14.3
Mean Rain mm	45.2	43.8	45.6	51.2	58.5	67.6	76.8	76.3	61.6	69.3	53.1	49.5