Candelo and Bemboka

Before moving on to Ulladulla we ventured up into the hills to Candelo to visit the monthly markets.  There were many stalls there and certainly plenty of people.  The one thing I did notice though was although there was knitted items for sale on some of the stalls, none of it was handspun and there was no fibre for sale.  Thought that was strange for down here.  However, we did pick up some honey, passionfruit butter and some homemade melting moments so all was not lost. 

Bemboka Creek

Leaving the markets we headed further up into the valley along the Snowy Mountains Highway to Bemboka (another ‘village in the valley’) and just a short way past there the ‘road closed’ sign is erected.  This is due to a landslide that happened some months ago further up on Brown Mountain.  This highway connects Cooma and Canberra to the coast and the closure means a slight detour as we found out on our way down here.  At Bemboka we found a mob of kangaroos just resting in the side yard to a house.  There may have been a ‘back’ entrance into the yard that allowed the kangaroos access to bush beyond, it just seemed strange seeing so many in that one yard.

the kanga residents in Bemboka

The countryside up through the mountains was beautiful to drive through.  Again green rolling hills were just everywhere we looked and dairies supplying the Bega factory were to be found as we drove along the hillside roads.  There was plenty of water running in the various creeks and all the dams scattered around the hills were full.