Home... Home Again
Dec. 12th, 2019 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We are back after a week-long road trip down to Melbourne & Victoria, then back up through the Snowy Mountains, hereafter named the Smoky Mountains, as there was so much smoke, that the mountains were just shapes in the haze...
Caught up with some friends, didn't catch up with others - don't take it personally, it was always going to be a fairly quick stop in Melbourne & people with new-born kids get priority... - did a lot of walking up & down streets, hills & market aisles, ate well (sometimes very well), but it was always more about the road-trip breaking in Laura & getting her used to the kind of things we make our cars do... flying down freeways, then onto dirt roads, byways & more highways...
Photos from Melbourne are all on Instagram (WaitingMan67), as it was too much trouble & not a little pretentious to be lugging the DSLR around the city. The photographic action really only got going on the 2nd day of the 3 day trip home, when we were looking for a way back to Sydney from Lakes Entrance, on the southern coast of Victoria & everything seemed to be on fire . There certainly seemed to be a ring of fire around Sydney
We found a dirt road that wound its way through the Alpine, then Kosciusko National Parks & brought us to south of Canberra. A real narrow mountain road, with occasionally narrower corners around some significant drop-offs. Thank god it was during the week, not school holidays & there were fires either side of it - which meant we only encountered 2 cars coming the other way & not at any of the brown-trouser times... The fires weren't literally either side of the road, but their smoke made visibility a bit of a challenge sometimes. Some beautiful scenery though, sometimes enhanced by the smoke...
We are back after a week-long road trip down to Melbourne & Victoria, then back up through the Snowy Mountains, hereafter named the Smoky Mountains, as there was so much smoke, that the mountains were just shapes in the haze...
Caught up with some friends, didn't catch up with others - don't take it personally, it was always going to be a fairly quick stop in Melbourne & people with new-born kids get priority... - did a lot of walking up & down streets, hills & market aisles, ate well (sometimes very well), but it was always more about the road-trip breaking in Laura & getting her used to the kind of things we make our cars do... flying down freeways, then onto dirt roads, byways & more highways...
Photos from Melbourne are all on Instagram (WaitingMan67), as it was too much trouble & not a little pretentious to be lugging the DSLR around the city. The photographic action really only got going on the 2nd day of the 3 day trip home, when we were looking for a way back to Sydney from Lakes Entrance, on the southern coast of Victoria & everything seemed to be on fire . There certainly seemed to be a ring of fire around Sydney
We found a dirt road that wound its way through the Alpine, then Kosciusko National Parks & brought us to south of Canberra. A real narrow mountain road, with occasionally narrower corners around some significant drop-offs. Thank god it was during the week, not school holidays & there were fires either side of it - which meant we only encountered 2 cars coming the other way & not at any of the brown-trouser times... The fires weren't literally either side of the road, but their smoke made visibility a bit of a challenge sometimes. Some beautiful scenery though, sometimes enhanced by the smoke...
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Date: 2019-12-12 10:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-12-12 11:04 pm (UTC)It's still a bit smoky here now, but nowhere near as bad... no P2 respirators required
I thought the smoke in the mountains lent an eerie kind of atmosphere... certainly made for a point of difference to other photos of pristine mountains & valleys. A bit Mordor-ish, perhaps... I kind of liked it, until you remember it meant the fires weren't too far away
Drive on!!!