Adelaide had some wild weather overnight and it had made it through to Albury this morning. There was some heavy rain for the first couple of hours of the journey.
Rain in the Alps at this time of year (one week before we were going skiing) is always bad, combined with warmer temperatures tends to melt and wash the snow away.
The weather cleared and I set the Tom Tom to find an alternative route and it took me through some of northern Victoria I had not travelled before.
Grabbed plenty of caches on the way to Cooma then travelled west towards Lake Eucumbene.
Adaminaby used to be located a bit further south than today but with the building of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, there was a need to move the town before Lake Eucumbene covered it up with water. The location is now home of the “Big Fish”.
It was starting to get dark. Managed to see a little bit of snow then the wildlife started to get restless.
There were plenty of roos bouncing around but it was the moving rocks that were the problem. I am talking about the wombats. They were everywhere as well – didn’t want to hit one of them as it would make a real mess.
I survived the dusk and finally made it through to Albury for the night but not after a pizza from Sweethearts Pizza – nom nom 🙂
Sydney to Canberra is around 300 kilometres and should take around 3 hours to do but if you add in some geocaching along the way then you can blow it out to 7 hours. 🙂
There were some interesting stops along the way including a secluded spot alongside the Hume Highway at Paddys River as well as an sculpture at Marulan commemorating the only town in the world on the 150th parallel.
Spent the night with a mate from University reliving the old times with a few beverages ….
