The next day dawned beautifully clear, the ground was soaked and all the trees and bushes sparkled after their big wash! So off on another trip of discovery.   This time to the Adelong Gold Mining ruins.Put me in the ancient or not-so-ancient ruins of any civilization and I am happy as a sandboy (what does that mean anyway?) for hours.No different at these ruins.   Again I am thrust back to another time, another world which was dirty, extremely noisy and ha...

We did a long trip to Wee Jasper today; 45km over twisting, winding dirt roads through the massive pine forest where awe met a couple of trucks. Interesting with steep drops into the forest below.    Not a terribly scenic drive and when we finally got to Wee Jasper?   Well there was a one room school and all other buildings, general store and bowser, pub, information centre, all closed.   Lack of business methinks. Apparently 80 people live here. Why,...

Tumut – a short drive of 25km from our awesome free camp at Blowering Dam and checking into Riverglade Caravan Park. You must get tired of my oohs and ahhhs and awesomes etc but I cant help myself!   Oh Wow!   This park is situated right on the Tumut River with huge trees right throughout.   We have set up under a magnificent Maple Tree with an incredible leopard mottled trunk.   The woolly seed pods, crushed underfoot, seems like a carpet underfo...

What an amazing place – and huge! I take my hat off to the Wildlife & National Parks for creating such an area and providing toilets, picnic tables, open fire bbq and rubbish skips.Here we are at Blowering Dam, which is fed from Talbingo Dam via Jounama Pondage – all part of the Snowy Scheme.   We set up under the trees, the only van within cooee, looking across to the lake and the hills/mountains backdrop.  A mob of kangaroos, not 5 metres away...

With beautiful clear, sunny, blue skies, a cool 12 degrees, we are heading pretty much north and slightly west, for about 110km, to Yarrangabilly Village free camp which is still in the Kosciuszko National Park.    We left Cooma with great memories and with Jill & Michael, the owners, shouting 'safe travels' and waving from the office door.   How nice!     Great roads, up in the mountains – get to 1250m on the Great Dividing Range then just o...