From the Blue Mountains, we began zigzagging south--first back over to the eastern coast, through gorgeously green rolling hills to the lovely towns of Huskisson and Ulladulla...
...then back inland through increasingly dry landscape to the Australian national capitol of Canberra, with its impressive, striking Parliament House...
...and then up, up, up into the Snow Mountains region south of Canberra:
Our aim/goal was to hike to the highest point in Australia, Kosciuszko Mountain, which was not that outrageous a goal since it's less than 7,000 ft high and a chairlift (it happens to lie at the heart of Australian ski resort country) takes you most of the way up and within a 4-mile walk from the peak itself. But we learned when we went to buy our lift tickets that the weather at the top was hovering around freezing, with wind gusts up to 70 mph and rain a near certainty. So, glumly, we abandoned our plan and drove on, through the endless twisty roads south out of the mountains (worth it for more and more amazing viewpoints)...
...that slowly gave way to more rolling hills...
...and adorable towns like Beechworth, in the north of the state of Victoria....
...on our way south to Australia's second-largest (but just as great as Sydney) city of Melbourne. But that, my friends, is another post for another day!
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