We managed to get away before dawn and headed down through Kangaroo Valley on our way to Culburra Beach to visit friends. We called into Maccas at Nowra for a quick breakfast then on to Lawrie and Chrissy's for a coffee and a long overdue chat.
We headed off down past the HMAS Albatros base , headed down the old Braidwood road , toTianjara Falls where we stopped and walked out to the lookout.
Got to Braidwood and had lunch in a park, Braidwood was very busy not quite sure what was on but good for businesses in the small town.
On the road again towards Cooma where the road turned to dirt so was quite slow going with road works and tree loppers cleaning up after the last fires. Arrived in Cooma where we set up camp in the snowy mountains tourist park , had dinner and shower the amenities were quite old but clean, we chatted to a few of the residents then to bed.
Breakfast and then packed up, heading to Adaminaby a lot of things were shut due to off season, had morning tea then turned off to Old Adaminaby which was on the edge of Lake Eucumbene . the lake is at 30% so the old
town, which had been flooded years ago, some of the old building ruins were visable , foundations, steps , paths and old relics were back in the sunlight. We were able to drive around the edge for quite a while untill we found a bush track out to the main road this led to Anglers Reach, another small village on the shore of lake Eucumbene we stopped on the waters edge amongst the dead trees that had risen out of the ever lowering water level, and had lunch before going back on the hwy to head to Yarrangobilly caves.
Just manages to get into the last tour of the Jillabean cave , was fabulous , the caves were small but interesting.
we left the caves and found ourselves on the Yarrangobilly River where we set up for the night.
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braidwood road to Braidwood |
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Tianjara falls |
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Adaminaby |
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lake eucumbene |
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climbing out of lake Eucumbene |
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anglers Reach |
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Lake at only 30% |
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Snowy Mountain Hwy |
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entering yarrangobilly caves |
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caves house |
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jillabean caves |
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jillabean caves |
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Yarrangobilly River |
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camp on the river |
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black perry lookout |