Snowy Valleys Council

It has been raining a lot and cold at night, so we tried to escape the weather by heading out of the Snowy Mountains. We were told by Acacia and Sweety Petey (that we met in Eden) that the weather was going to be quite bad and to avoid the Snowy Mountains. So we decided to head to Tumut as we had unfinished business with fresh water fishing, so decided to visit the Blowering Damn. We drove through on the Snowy Mountains Highway through the mountains and high altitude. There was speckles of snow, and everything was burnt. It was eye opening. The devastation of the bush fires is all across the south Coast. You can’t really escape it.

As we were driving towards Tumut at the base of the snowy mountains, we saw some beautiful looking campsites along the Blowering Damn. So we decided to go into Tumut, pick up supplies and then head back out to the campsite called The Pines, in Kosciuszko National Park.

The campsite was alongside the Blowering Damn. So we didn’t miss the opportunity to fish :)

We fished till sunset and caught a small Redfin. Apparently they are a pest and should now be thrown back in the water. We didn’t know this at the time. So We threw the little one back in.

We saw emus running about with their hatchlings. Had a nice fire and went to bed for an early start.

We had a quick fish in the morning and then headed to the Blowering Damn look out, and walked across the Damn. Then headed to our next destination in the Bago State Forest, to the other side of then fam and we thought it had potential to get us a fish!!Read more