Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Heading to the South Coast


our 'friendly' horse trailer in front

Time to leave after our week in Cooma and we headed out on our trip towards the coast.  The Snowy Mtns Hway down to Bega is currently blocked at Brown Mountain so a detour has to be made via Bombala and then across to Pambula.  There was plenty of pot holes and work gangs were slowly working their way through them all trying to repair the damage from the recent heavy rains. 
beautiful muntain forest as we descend to the coast

Unfortunately the road contains many twists and turns and overtaking lanes are in short supply going down.  We had a horse carrying vehicle in front of us and for a while there were just the two of us so no great problem doing under 40kph however, once the cars started to catch up we thought it best to pull over and let them past, 3 times in total but did the leading vehicle…..well no he just kept on crawling down the hill.  Needless to say when there were overtaking opportunities the poor car drivers had to go for broke to get past.

We had lunch at Merimbula overlooking the water before heading up to Bega for our next campout.  We have checked in for a week ‘again’ and will take our time to explore the surrounding area…and visit the Cheese Factory!    Lovely quiet van park and not many other campers so surrounded with green grass and an outlook from the top of the hill we are quite content.

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