Intermission
Intermission Anyone familiar with the lay of the land here in Oz knows that the Great Dividing Range is a mountainous area that runs the full length of the eastern seaboard in a north-south direction and separates the Western Plains from the Eastern Coastal fringe. It is not a particularly tall mountain range, with an average height of only 750 m / 2,100 ft, but it does run 3,500 km / 2,175 mi, from the tip of Cape York in northern Queensland to the the Grampians in southern Victoria. click on image to enlarge This weekend, Winter arrived early, with a polar blast dumping the first significant snowfalls on the Kosciusko Mountains area on the Victorian border and a light dusting of snow on the Southern and Central Tablelands of my State. The Northern Tablelands missed the snowfall this week, but their time will come soon enough. Daytime temperatures on the Western Plains are now around 0*C~10*C, with a wind chill taking that down to around 0*C. This wi...