We checked out the town and the next day headed up to the Snowy Mountains.    For Kiwis, think of the Desert Road in summer, tussock grass, alpine flowers and bushes, stark, dry brown ground with nary a glimpse of green.   Beautifully rugged!   No snow in these mountains however.   Not for a couple of months yet, when the whole region will be blanketed and take on a new lease of life.   In the meantime, we were happy to drive these fantastic roads where...

We moved away from the fabulous NSW coast, driving west, up the escarpment of Browns Mountain towards Cooma, the Capital/Gateway of the Snowy region.Very scenic travelling up into the mountains, the mountain forest clinging to the edge of the highway with the air clearing, leaving the ocean mist of the coast behind. We stopped at a couple of lookouts, dedicated to those who had cut a path through the mountains a hundred or more years ago, to enable this highway...