From Bright to the Sunshine Coast
We managed to leave on the Monday morning at about 8 am which wasn't too bad.
I was traveling in convoy with one other car and we drove to Mount Beauty and then along the Kiewa Valley. Quite picturesque, but much dryer than at the same time last year. We refueled at Tallangatta which is in "the man from Snowy river country".
The trip over the Alps was enjoyable and spectacular and we made a stop at Cabramurra, the highest town in Australia. The extreme slope on the roofs of the buildings was interesting. When they are not getting rid of snow they would make great locations for solar panels. There would be enough space to power the whole town I reckon.
We then continued over the rest of the Alps to Cooma that also claims to be "the Man from Snowy River" country.
After Cooma it was a fairly straightforward run to Canberra where I parted company with Tony and Beryl and spent the night at a friends place.
Next day it was up and away early to Bathurst via Yass and Cowra. It was good driving with reasonable roads and some interesting towns. At Bathurst of course there was only one place to go. Mount Panorama. The track is phenomenal. I had driven around it 35 years ago, but it has changed considerably since then. Where there were once 3 strand wire fences there are now concrete canyons which makes it all much more claustrophobic over the top portion. The corners are much sharper than they appear on TV and some of the drops mid corner are quite frightening. All in all a very daunting race track.