点评:The winter landscape at Mt Kosciuszko is just stunning. Like most winter-time visitors, we come here to ski. Whilst it can be hit and miss with the snow cover, the landscape is always beautiful. One of the most striking features are the snow gums. They always catch my eye. They are so distinctively Australian. When you’re skiing among the snow gums, you couldn’t be anywhere else in the world but Australia.
These huge, heavy trunked, ancient trees are real survivors in the harsh alpine conditions. The most striking ones have rainbow coloured bark. It’s hard to imagine that the shades of yellow, rusty-red and orange, creamy-white, green and silvery-grey patterning is not painted on.
We are curious to know what caused this. It seems that the gum sheds its bark at different stages and the exposed strips change colour over time so that at any given time you might have several different shades of colour on the one trunk. It’s quite unique.
NOTE: To enter the Kościuszko National Park you either need to have a National Parks pass or pay the daily car fee. A day pass this year was $29 (a year pass was $190 but includes all NSW national parks). The good bit is that you pay per car, not per person, so a family in the one car only pays one fee.
翻译:科修斯科山的冬季景观令人惊叹。像大多数冬季游客一样,我们来这里滑雪。虽然积雪时好时坏,但这里的风景总是很美。最引人注目的景观之一是雪桉树。它们总是吸引我的眼球。它们是如此独特的澳大利亚风情。当你在雪桉树中滑雪时,你不会觉得身处世界上任何其他地方,而是澳大利亚。
这些巨大、粗壮的古树是严酷的高山条件下真正的幸存者。最引人注目的是彩虹色的树皮。很难想象黄色、铁锈红色和橙色、乳白色、绿色和银灰色的图案不是画上去的。
我们很好奇是什么原因造成的。似乎桉树在不同阶段脱落树皮,暴露的条带会随着时间的推移而改变颜色,因此在任何时候,一根树干上都可能出现几种不同的颜色。这很独特。
注意:要进入科希丘什科国家公园,您要么需要国家公园通行证,要么需要支付每日汽车费用。今年的一日通行证价格为 29 美元(一年通行证价格为 190 美元,但包括所有新南威尔士州国家公园)。好处是,您是按车付费,而不是按人付费,因此一辆车上的一个家庭只需支付一次费用。