30 November Monday Into Victoria We broke camp, said good-bye to our short-term neighbours and drove down to Khancoban for morning tea. Mal picked up a painting shirt at the op shop and we got our gas bottle filled at the caravan park. Then we rolled out over fairly dry grazing country and crossed the river into Mexico. Well Victoria actually. The landscape felt unusual after 10 days in the Kozey-Oz_Co National Park. We crossed the Mita Mita River which was...

Wednesday 25th November Time to leave the lake. It won't be easy we have grown to love this place. We drove over to Jinderbyne which is quite a long way. The thing that becomes apparent down here is just how far things are apart in time even if not in distance. We did shopping and washing and visited National Parks re a pass for Cosey-oz-co NP. We drove up into those hills where the wind is either strong or super strong and for the first time had to batten down...

Tuesday 17th November - Canberra to Snowy Mountains Mal was reflecting on the Canberra town plan as we drove on a mass of four lane freeways that seem to connect these dormitory suburbs/satellite towns to Canberra. It was probably a great idea from Henry Ford's perspective. Everyone has a car and drives all the time. Now it seems out of date, we surely want cities where people don't need to own a car and the landscape needs less bitumen not more. If human...

Monday 16th November Caught the bus into Canberra. It feels more like an international airport where no one seems to be able to catch their flight so they have half settled mid transit. We walked from the city over to the Parliamentary precinct. It is a pleasant walk but were we in a movie set? Pleasant avenues of trees sporting their spring garb and the odd extra pushing a pram or perhaps riding their bike. We were coopted to be extras as well sitting...

Friday 13th Well one should not expect everything to go to plan on Friday the 13th. The day started well and has ended well. It was the bit in the middle which was a little soggy, with hail thrown in when Mal was walking back from the gate. We did put up the screen tent for the flies and between showers got a bit of painting done. We did light a fire to bake our sweet corn in but the rain and hail put a stop to that. We did get a great sunset to finis...