Tuesday 24
December 2019 – 280 541
This morning
we drove to Tumut and looked around this country town and bought some
bread. On the way back out of town Drew
and Hayden picked tiny but delicious apricots and plums growing beside the
road.
We visited
Blowering Dam wall where the hydropower station was running and releasing water
into the Tumut River. The dam wall is
amazingly high!
Today’s hike
to Warogong Sugarloaf was short, 12km, but incredibly tough with steep
gradients up and down. https://visitsnowyvalleys.com.au/listing/warogong-sugarloaf-walking-track/ We detoured to
Bald Hill where we could see out over Blowering Resevoir. There were some very pretty areas with
wildflowers and grand trees. We saw several large mobs of Grey Kangaroo move
off as we approached. At the top were great views over the Tumut Valley – it
felt as if without the smoke the views would go on forever. Unfortunately, Drew took a tumble and
managed to get a large (approximately 5mm by 5mm by 20mm) splinter in his elbow. This was amongst the toughest walks we have
ever done. When we finished my Garmin
awarded a new badge “Toasty” for recording an activity when it was over 38
degrees – no wonder it felt tough!
We then drove
to The Pines campground at Blowering Reservoir for a very late lunch and
watched some of the water skiers out on this enormous body of water.
Then back to
our campsite for a well-earned cool down in the creek.
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