Very long bridge carrying the Hume Highway over the Murrumbidgee River flats.
Two now unused bridges - road bridge on the left (this is where the highway used to run) and railway bridge on the right.
The hills are as dry and bare as can be.
View to the north. Green area would be irrigated from the Murrumbidgee River.
View over the town of about 2000 people.
Hume Highway descending the hill into the town.
Bridges from the south side of town.
Views over the Murrumbidgee.
If you click on this photo and enlarge it you will see a small stone cairn in the right third of the photo, among the trees. This is where the town used to be before being swept away in a flood in 1852 killing 89 of the then 250 residents.
I love your photos. The countryside looks so dry but it's still beautiful in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for these photos Alice. It's lovely to see the Aussie countryside, in any state....be it wet or dry.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's beautiful countryside even brown with just a touch of green.
Those poplar trees sure are popular :)
Thanks for sharing your Australia with us Alice!
Great photos, thanks Alice.
ReplyDeleteAren't the bridges amazing ... specially when it looks like they are built to go over - nothing - hard to picture raging rivers under them though.
My mum always used to say, with a laugh, about the bridges in Queensland (we have a lot of rivers along the coast, that always used to flood and trap people in the wet):
"Funny, why did they build all the bridges under the water?"
thanks again for some wonderful images..
:-)
Della
On Tuesday I took the train to Castlemaine and back, and as the tracks are generally elevated, I could see more of the countryside, and especially dams. They are, in a word, empty, and the ground is covered with yellow stubble. But still, there is something about the countryside in southeast Australia (which your photographs have captured, that capture my heart. I too think it's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteok - so where is the dog on the tuckerbox?? :) - I adore Gundagai - it was a place that we stopped at on our to Melbourne when I was a little gal and went with my dad, interstate trucking. But hasn't the tuckerbox changed? It is soooo touristy now.
ReplyDeleteour land is so dry, its sad.
Nice pictures, and longggggggg bridges.....
ReplyDeleteLove those pictures.
ReplyDeleteI love all the place names, & used to love to listen to my Aussie Grandfather talking about all the places he had been, & telling stories with all those place names.
I often wonder if he got homesick, but dont think he ever came back here, after moving to NZ, where he met & married my Grandmother.
Stunning scenery, unbelievable to think that a countryside so brown and dry can produce floods that killed so many. i found that photo quite moving, looking at the dry valley that must have been so transformed on that day.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post with the photos. At first I wondered, why bridges when it's no water? Then I realized that it was river flats...
ReplyDeleteSee we don't really have dried out floods over here in Sweden :-)
Love the scenery, it's beautiful with all the hills too.
Fascinating.. beautiful countryside. Looks much like California in the dry season.. You can tell where there are tiny springs since there are little slips of greenery.
ReplyDeleteYour garden pictures are like the rains after a parched time
Thanks for sharing all these photos.. I've been preoccupied, but happy I caught up a bit with you..
We are going brown down here is Tassie too. Water restrictions are an order.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful vast landscapes Alice but so very, very dry, just quite the opposite to here in Wales. Marion
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing photos from your recent trip to Melbourne. It's great to see places that I've never been.
ReplyDeleteWe are having such cold, snowy weather here. I'm ready for a trip to somewhere warm!
I have just had three of my grandchildren for nine days while Mom and Dad were away for some training with their mission organization. They are darling children. Nevertheless, I am exhausted.
Hi Alice..
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of Gundagai i haven't been there for ages, now i have the urge to see it again.
Hope all is well xx
Gwen
Oh yes, a lot of brown. Very dry in this area. It is so interesting for me, to see your country-side.
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Thanks for sharing your photos of Gundagai ... it is a lovely area ... I spent some time there a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteHope all is well.
Take care, Meow
Alice so nice to see your photos gosh those overseas must love your blog it is like a nice armchair tour of our beautiful country for sure.
ReplyDeleteI see you came down this way for a visit good for you I do hope you enjoyed yourself and we must get to know more about your holiday not that I am nosy! lol lol justin interested.
joy to you always.
Lee-ann
I remember gundagai as being the town we stop at to get a cool drink and go to the 'you know where'. Christopher never let me look around for too long. One day we are going to travel around Australia and stop in all the towns along the way and investigate the people and it's special places. Won't be until the chickens leave the coop though. Lots of love, Nicole xox.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I love living in New Zealand, there is nothing quite as beautiful as the dryness of Australia.
ReplyDeleteWith the lovely brown photos of my home town its hard to believe the scenery could ever be green - but all those brown areas can also be the deepest lush green in Spring when we get the Spring rains, (which we didn't in 2006).
ReplyDeleteGundagai is a very very special place in Oz and probably the lynchpin of the continent but there are numerous other beautiful places worldwide also.
Happy day all.
Yes Gundagai is so very beautiful. In fact we have just purchased a house there and will soon be apart of it.
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