Another drive with the APs

Circumstances had curtailed my earlier-in-the-year plans to take my APs on a trip away, but I still had plenty of accumulated leave … just no capacity to actually take some of it in a nice big block. However, I could arrange to escape for a day, and so I duly did, and took my folks for a drive to the upper reaches of the Derwent River.

We stopped at the rather impressive Repulse Dam, which had a lot of water thundering over it.

The nearby countryside was quite interesting too, with rolling hills and hidden valleys, skeletal trees and grazing cattle, and dramatic rocky outcrops. I was surprised to see some of these places, because they’re not all that far from home and yet I don’t think I’ve visited before today.