Out of town again

This starts off in town, with some scenes of the bream fishing competition as seen from our deck.  This was about 0630.

A clearer shot about 0650.   Quite a few of the boats had turned their lights off by this point.
 By the time the boats actually started  the weather had got really murky.  With that  and the strong wind it would be most unpleasant out on the lakes.  At a rough count there were about 40 boats in the competition:  a slight drop on previous years, but given the chaos that is COVID, not bad.

The weather continued to be ordinary as we drove up to Canberra.  I wrote on the weather forum:
Basically intermittent light rain from Mallacoota to Cooma. Lots of water lying around in the paddocks once we got out of the plantations South of Bombala, all the way to Cooma (about 100km) . Less water around from Cooma to Canberra.

We'd had our usual bet on the temperature at Nimmitabel as we left 13C at 'coota. I went for 7 and Frances for 5. It had only dropped to about 12C half way along Imlay Rd but then we went over a slight ridge at about the 33 km marker, which dropped the temperature to 9C. By Bombala it was down to 7C and it looked as though we could be in snow at Nimmi. However the precipitation eased and the temperature slowly decreased to 5C as we passed Lake Williams (where there was not a single parked car).

Much traffic on the Monaro Highway: presumably all heading snow-wards. One very nastily positioned plod-mobile at the South end of Bredbo: round a bend and about 50m from the start of the 100kph limit. I suspect he will be doing a lot of business from folk anticipating the increased limit, and alienating lots of normal drivers, but not contributing to safe driving at all.

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