Yesterday did a drive to the dams, Serpentine, Gordon and Franklin, not far from here but spent a lovely couple of hours exploring, truly beautiful. The Gordon is down as it runs into the Franklin but still majestic scenery in the wilderness out here. Surely they have not explored every spot in these hundreds of kilometres of mountains. The Franklin Dam damn it is huge and powerful looking. Wally did the climb down to walk upon the wall and some great photos...

Horrible evening and feel like garbage today but thankfully left our abode (after I made him cook me a lovely breakfast) and drove towards our next bit of adventure in gorgeous weather. We headed towards Hamilton and then turned west again on our way to Strathgordon. Went thru lovely county that was filled with acres of hop vines growing up the struts and in full flower, also raspberries and blackberry fields abundantly ready for eating but we refrained. Stoppe...