Merimbula - Cooma
My 12-day road trip continued in Merimbula, where I stayed the first night, and then through the Great Dividing Range to Cooma on the second day, where I made a short stop on my way to Canberra
November 17-18, 2004

01-SEForestsNP On the way from Bairnsdale to Merimbula, I stopped to take a picture of this sunset in Southeast Forests National Park 02-GordonNP Lind National Park, with obvious signs of wildfires in the fairly recent past ... for two and a half hours, Princes Hwy passed through dense and desolate gum forests like this, with nary a hamlet or town 03-GordonNP Sunset in Lind NP, part of the larger Southeast Forests NP 04-WandarrahLodgeYHA Wandarrah Lodge YHA, the hostel I stayed at in Merimbula 05-MerimbulaBeach Merimbula Beach 06-MerimbulaBeach Merimbula Beach 07-MerimbulaBeach Some fog off to the south at Merimbula Beach 08-Merimbula Merimbula 09-LakeMerimbula Lake Merimbula 10-IronPelican An iron pelican ... or at least that's what I think it is 11-Merimbula Merimbula 12-Countryside Countryside near Merimbula 13-Countryside More Merimbula countryside 14-PipersLookout Pipers Lookout in the Great Dividing Range, on the way from Merimbula to Cooma 15-PipersLookout Pipers Lookout 16-BembokaEscarpment Bemboka Escarpment, at Pipers Lookout 17-BlueHills The blue hills of the Bemboka Escarpment 18-SEForestsNP Southeast Forests NP 19-BlueHills Blue hills in the Great Dividing Range 20-PipersLookout Pipers Lookout 21-BembokaEscarpment Bemboka Escarpment ... supposedly the ocean can be seen in the distance from here on a clear, haze-free day 22-Bush Bush 23-RoadBelow Looking down on the road below 24-Platform Viewing platform at Pipers Lookout 25-HairpinCurve One of the several hairpin curves littered throughout the Great Dividing Range 26-Cooma The Avenue of Flags in Cooma 27-AvenueOfFlags Avenue of Flags 28-Placard A placard about the Avenue of Flags 29-Cooma Cooma, the gateway to the Snowy Mountains 30-AvenueOfFlags Mosaics on the Avenue of Flags