There's no catch- honest!

Been fishing today- seems there is a lot of trout and salmon in this lake, and I've been told the bait I've bought is the best available. Spent four hours with my very expensive rod (27 dollars) to no avail. I spoke to one guy who caught two great salmon and a trout on Sunday, but he hasn't had any luck today either!

I'm convinced there is no fish at all anywhere in Australia- or maybe they just don't respond to Poms!

Anyway, in the past couple of days we have travelled around this beautiful area, it;s quiet at the moment as most of the tourists come here in the winter for the skiing.There are some great runs up at Thredbo and Perisher, ( called that coz it's Perishing cold up there), but of course nothing doing at the moment,
The runs are as good as any I have seen in Europe, and are very well served with lifts.
The highest mountain in Australia is here, Mount Kosciuszko, weighs in at araound 8000ft. No prizes for guessing what nationality the guy was it was named after. We are told there was snow on it just a few days before we arrived, but we've been very lucky, we have had three of the hottest days we have had for weeks.

Lake Jindabyne is part of the Great Snowy River scheme, I remember hearing about it in the 50s when it started. They drowned the town of Jindabyne, and rebuilt a modern town above the lake. Then they cut a tunnel for some 50 miles to the Murray Catchment area, to use the snowmelt to irrigate the breadbasket of Austalia- the Murray valley. Unfortunately the flow of the snowy river has been badly affected, resulting in silting. However they have now realised their mistake, and are releasing more water into the Snowy, and conserving water in the Murray.

The lake has been at 100% in the past few weeks due to very heavy rainfall in the mountains here, they have had to reduce the height to it's normal 86%through the Snowy, and we have been so lucky in the past few days to see the Snowy at it's best.

Today we took a drive to Dalgety, a historic town about 30 miles away. There we saw a trestle bridge built in 1888, an amazing construction which really has stood the test of time. Bear in mind, that while the Snowy river is tamed nowadays by the dam and lake, in those days a great deal of water poured down this river during the snowmelt, and it has survived many floods.

But talking about bridges, the Aussies seem to have a ironic sense of humour, I fail to see there is a need for a "No Passing" sign on a single track bridge.....