Khancoban was our first stop the next morning for coffee at the Pickled Parrot.

A lovely winding Alpine Way took us to Scammells Lookout and Tom Groggin campground (check out the kanga)! Of course Mitzy couldn’t walk with us, because …its a NATIONAL PARK! But she was with us in sympathy.

As we turned the corner at Siberia, we got our first glimpse of snow….and the landscape got very moody – dark clouds, fog, chilly winds and sleeting snow fell. We loved it. Silly pic taking occurred. 

Cooma our next stop for the night, with locals surprising us with Book Week outfits….

We went on a ‘Snowy Mt Scheme flyover’ at the Discovery Centre the next morning. All these new learnings: Snowy 2.0 will underpin the nation’s “transition to a low-carbon emissions” future. The project involves linking two existing dams, Tantangara and Talbingo, through 27km of tunnels and building a new underground power station.

Water will be pumped to the upper dam and then released back to the lower dam to generate energy when electricity demand is high. It will provide flexible, on-demand power while reusing or ‘recycling’ the water in a closed loop and maximise the efficiency of renewables by using excess solar and wind energy to pump water to the higher dam, to be stored for later use. So impressive – as a presentation of what the future holds.