Canberra is just a short drive away from the Snowy Mountains… the highest alpine wilderness in Australia.
The Lake Crackenback Resort, near Australia’s highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, is the perfect cool summer place for us to celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary….where did the time go?
On our early morning walk we saw this beguiling little kangaroo….she waited patiently while we took about five photos. Can you believe that pose?
Meanwhile we noticed her mother had taken the younger Joey and was waiting anxiously for the star to finish her photo shoot…parents the world over can recognise that anxious look (and blissfully unaware younger brother/sister)
Our young star seems to be saying…
”well, maybe I will….. maybe I won’t” (she must be a teenager!)
Phew, she’s hopped down to join her family.
Off to shoot the breeze on the golf course..
Australia is the driest continent on earth, and since the 19th century with expanding settlement and farming, there has been a critical need for irrigation, and a water supply to combat droughts.
The Snowy Mountains, with melting snow and flowing rivers, was ideal for hydro-electricity. Thus began, in 1949 one of the biggest post WW11 projects, the Snowy Mountains Scheme. This scheme changed the course of Australian history in many ways, and definitely deserves its own post, later this year.
In the meanwhile, I’m passing on the canoeing (easy for some)….. but we are ready to try out the excellent pizzas in the Alpine Larder.
Look at the wonderful soft grasses!
I was brought up in Africa, running through grasses trying not to attract snakes and bugs, so I’m a latecomer to how beautiful they look in a landscape like this.
There are fences and gates between the kangaroos and houses, but ….
I bet it is hard to keep all the animals and insects away from new plants..
I loved the use of stone and timber in the house below, for a split second I think how nice it would be to live here…
But…. we are happy just to be here.
So, a toast to our 39th Wedding anniversary, and to having the good fortune to be able to stay in the lovely Snowy Mountains.
…and looking out over this most precious and elusive resource in Australia…water.
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