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Another trip to Canberra

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 The drive up was pretty reasonable apart from surprisingly heavy traffic on the Cooma to Bombala  section.  There were a couple of groups of Italian cars - 3 Alfas and about 10 km later about 6 Ferraris - but I have no idea what they were about.   After settling in the main attraction was the sun setting behind Black Mountain. On the morning of the 9th as we set off on our morning walk we noticed the abseilers were doing the business on people's windows.  These were on the South Tower in Allara St: the images are a little out of the order in which I took but seem to sequence OK> This continues to be a job for the imagination-challenged! We got to Commonwealth Park and to my amazement found Floriade being rebuilt.  My suspicion is that it is less than 6 months since the beds were removed!  An alert auditor might like to explore the value for money given by this rubbish - especially the astonishing amount which must be paid for hiring the temporary fencing! The fruit-bats are sti
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The drive back

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 This is basically a set of photos I took, being passenger, as we came back to Mallacoota.   I began as we passed Michelago  with the Tinderry Range in the background. This closer view just about shows the amount of bare rock still visible. I suspect the area is still recovering from the fire which went through the area in 200 9.  (We could see the fire from Carwoola, 25km North, at a community Christmas party!) Communications towers are now a common sight along the way. I think this straight, at Billilingra, is about 6km long.  It has unusually light traffic.  The length is the same as the Mulsanne Straight used to be in the Le Mans race: the top speed recorded there (before chicanes were inserted) was 405 kph - that would mess with the average speed cameras! Irrigation at Dromore. When we had a weekender at Kalaru (near Tathra) we used to pass through Cooma about every 3 weeks on our way.  We felt very clever avoiding central Cooma by cutting along Polo Flat Rd.  The servo there als
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Enlighten

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This covers our visit to the main Enlighten Festival site in the Parliamentary Triangle (or whatever the stupid NCA want to call it now).  At first it will just be my photos. We had intended to park at the Royal Canberra Croquet Club but some friends we met there with croquet in mind said that there was parking very close to the site.  So after a couple of good malleting efforts (winning my first game 7-6 with a jump shot!!!) we took the Pajero over to the National Library carpark.  As it was not yet dark (1915 hours) we had time to assess the food carts ... ... and put ourselves outside some very good prawn dumplings.  We strolled up to Old Parliament House (aka Museum of Australian Democracy) noting en route that the rose garden is totally buggered: I don't think it has been weeded, watered or pruned for at least one year and possibly more.  Shime NCA, shime.  Some of the few roses had been repositioned on the statues   of  Dame Dorothy Tangney and Dame Enid Lyons , two courageo
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