Turning inland, the rolling dairy hills gradually got less green until we reached the South East Forests NP which obviously generates it's own climate through air rising steeply up it's Eastern slopes, creating a thin rainforest band full of tree ferns. As quickly as it appears, it disappears again, giving way to treeless plains stretching inland to The Snowy Mountains. Gravel roads past boulders left by some ancient ice age, took us to the Snowy range. Up and over, down to Lake Jindabyne which simmered on a sweltering day. Too hot to do much until evening, we swam in the resort pool, checked out the Info Centre and bought ice cream.
An evening walk revealed a beautiful sunset over the lake. The original village of Jindabine is safely preserved under the water, damned when the valleys were dammed.
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