Dodging (most of) the filming

We had intended to spend most the week of  11-17 January in Canberra but for a number of reasons, including our apartment being in the middle of a film set, we put it off so that we came up on the 17th.  Here are a few snaps.

The first two are of the forest along Imlay Rd (around km post 20).  A year ago a lot of this would still have been smoking, so the regeneration is pretty good.

An area getting close to km 40 I think, where a hillside, previously covered with pines, has been clear felled.  

These are the White Rocks  The dunny here has not yet been rebuilt.

This is the view from about km 55, close to the end of the road, were it drops down towards the Genoa River.  The clearing of pines in the distance had certainly started before the fires.  At the bottom of the hill on February 7 2020 there was still active fire (see images a couple of screens down in this post).

The rest of the drive was unremarkable, other than us both commenting on the relatively heavy traffic.  I don't think this was just due to us having got used to the low levels due to border closures.

We had seen a map of the area around our apartment showing proposed traffic flow.  The bottom box shows that we could enter the area via Allara St.  

When we got here that wasn't the case , and the security person there said we had to go to Akuna St to get in,  It turns out they had issued a later map but that hadn't been sent to us.

The film set was packing up.  Here are some folk picking up the crowd control fencing.  

There was a lot of fencing to pick up.  I'd suggest that getting shares in a fence hire company wouuld be a good idea.  Also a security company: my guess is that there were at least 50 people wearing high-vis staffing the various checkpoints.  (I'd assess that the academic quals were bimodally distributed: 50% of the staff were permanently on the books at Centrelink and 50% were international students doing their PhD at ANU.)

Here is the Dodge which features in the film.

That at least wasn't a Commodore in disguise.  The star of the film (Liam Neeson) didn't turn up, he was represented by a stunt man wearing a mask.  But then Canberra was in fact doubling for Washington DC where the action is supposed to be.

By the morning of the 18th everything had been packed away, but all the rentavans were still parked around the pool.

At least we able to get to the Lake.  A Darter and some ducks in Nerang Pool.