Last weekend we drove up the
Great Alpine Road to Mount Hotham. It is supposed to be the mountain equivalent of the
Great Ocean Road, which we enjoyed tremendously back in December (wow, was it that long ago?). The Alpine road wasn't as spectacular, but we are going to have to do it again in the spring when the weather is better.We in Omeo (pop: 452) an old gold rush town, for a bite to eat and to rent snow chains for the car ($30 a day rental!). We went for a walk in the snow through
Dinner Plain village (population: 88), hung out with snowmen, and got the car stuck in a snowbank, although we were to cold to have the snowball fight that prompted us to "go to the snow" in the first place. (Australians "go to the snow" the same way they "go to the beach".)
Central Post & Telegraph Office in Omeo, built in 1891, looking over Omeo.
Omeo from above. Valleys of rolling hills.
Steve digging the car out of the snowbank
(no chains on the tires yet).
Jessica playing in the snow.
Steve with a new friend.
Keep left of poles. I don't think I'd try to drive through the trees, but who knows?
Watch out for unfenced snow kangaroos!
Drive on left in Australia. I hope that people aren't just learning this as they pass the sign. (Great Ocean Road, with high tourist traffic)
Please Check Under Your Car before driving away - there might be a penguin under it. (Phillips Island Penguin Parade)
If I walk into this Cambodian Cafe, doe it take me to Burke road, or to Riversdale road?
Australian wildlife - Kangaroo? Check. Koala? Check. Wombat? Check. Dragon with a scarf?? (Mallacoota, Vic)
Drowsy Drivers Die - now thats stiff punishment! (Gippsland, Vic)
They have trains on roads here? In the background is a sign that clarifies that train tracks cross the side road. Why they need two signs to make this point, I'm not sure. (Gippsland, Vic)
Unfenced cattle and kangaroos in the snow (Mount Hotham, Vic)
Keep left of poles (Mount Hotham, Vic)
