I stopped in Adaminaby to use the loo and to take a photo of the Big Trout.
It was surprisingly cold outside, after the drive along Bobeyan Road it had been warm, I'd had the windows cracked, although but not by much.
Now stepping outside into the fresh air it was surprisingly chilly especially as it was still blue skies and sunshine.
The Snowy Mountains Highway starts out as many a rural highway; sweeping through the country side, but then it starts to climb and there are slow vehicle passing lanes along with snow chain fitment bays every tens of kilometres along this part of the route.
The road markings also switch from being white to yellow and the plastic road edge markings go from being white and normal height to being red and double height, all very indicative that this area gets snow.
I stopped at Sawyers Hut which unfortunately had been burnt by the Black Summer bush fires, now with only the chimney remaining.
The worst part of the Snowy Mountains Highway was I think the decent down to…well not exactly water level but the road next to the Tumut River.
Almost needed to put my ute in sport mode to change gear manually, and certainly a good workout for the brakes in any car.
In the Blowering area the view of the water…it was an almost intimidating amount of water looking out there.
And again looking at street view, it's obvious that at the movement in 2021 it's a lot fuller than it was in several years past.
In Tumut I had intended to follow the Snowy Mountains Highway and sort of meander through the countryside until I got to Wodonga, and in fact deliberately drove past the turn off for Gocup Road (which leads to the Gundagai and the Hume Highway). But then driving out of Tumut was behind what looked like a convoy of horse floats and decided to do a U-turn and go back to Gocup Road, at that time and after the drive down from Snowy Mountains I just wasn't in the right mood to deal with that at that moment.
Joining the Hume Highway, noted that when I got to Holbrook it had been bypassed, the last time I drove along the Hume Highway it had yet to be bypassed, one of the few towns that had yet to be bypassed. (Looking through my photos the last time I drove the Hume Highway was in 2012)