Down hill!

We headed back to Mallacoota of April 18.  The traffic was quite heavy with lots of caravans on the move.  Presumably this reflects the school holidays and the coincidence of public holidays meaning that by taking 4 days off work you get an 11 day break.

The photos which follow were taken by Frances as passenger.

There were a lot of roadworks around.  This lot, between Cooma and Nimmitabel demonstrated some of the annoyance of the activity. We were already about 400m past the flag person (from [Don't] Care Traffic Services)and the far end of the blocked area is shown by the green arrow.  About 1000 metres in total.  The work area is between the red arrows - perhaps 100m?

 At least there was work going on, and it is a good idea to keep motorists away from bitumen spraying.

 Throughout the drive the poplars were well turned in colour,

 Somewhere after Bombala, and after the obligatory warning sign, we met a mob on the long paddock.  They were finding plenty of feed on the verge.

 A pretty cow with unusual horns.

 Here are the horses (and a curious dog).  These look very like the crew that passed through Bungendore a few weeks ago.

 Into Umlay Rd and the burn that was setting up as we headed up hill last Saturday had happened.  It looks to have actually been more controlled - at least on the Northern edge - than is often the case.

 It was a small worry that smoke (and flames were still visible right on the edge of the area  Astrong Southerly might encourage this to jump the road!