Back in 1963 my aunt and uncle took a trip to the Snowy Mountains.
At the time most of Australia was in the grip of ‘Snowy Mountains Fever’ – the Snowy Scheme was to that time the greatest civil engineering feat undertaken Australia in which the flow of the Snowy River (which flowed east to the sea) was diverted through a series of dams to flow west to assist irrigate farmlands in the Riverina districts.
The scheme also provided the wherewithal to generate electricity needed for Australia’s eastern seabord in the years ahead.
These pictures are scanned from slides my aunt took on the trip. Sadly many of the slides I found are now ‘beyond repair’. But these are a tribute to the men and women who built the Snowy Scheme.
Posted by john cowper on 2011-10-22 04:17:15
Tagged: , Snowy Mountains , Snowy Mountains Scheme , Snowy River
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