You can fly into the Snowy Mountains Airport near Cooma and rent a car for the 40min drive to Dalgety. As for places to stay, the Snowy River Holiday Park is the only holiday park on the banks of the Snowy River, while Lachney Cottage is set on scenic acreage.
Accommodation Events Activities. All rights reserved. Home destinations snowy mountains jindabyne area Dalgety. Dalgety Highlights. Food and drink. The vineyard has been…. The Dalgety Show offers animal stalls and pavilions with displays of cattle, sheep and goats, horse jumping and side show…. Enjoy peace and tranquillity while you learn about Dalgety's heritage and the Snowy River restoration on the Dalgety…. The Dalgety Brewing Company was formed in late It is the first commercially produced beer in the Snowy Mountains….
Hit the Ski Fields. Entrants in the international design competition, imagining a city there, would have been given instructions as they were for the Canberra site that their design had to have these city-flattering waters. Ornamental waters had been a great hit at the World's Columbian Exposition of , and in any case those imagining a fine Australian federal capital city probably drew on thoughts of existing fine cities London and its Thames, St Petersburg and its Neva that owed a lot of their character to the bodies of water they were juxtaposed with.
And Australians imagining their city may anyway have thought, as Walter Burley Griffin did, that cooling, "artistic waters" would be a "blessing" for an inland city in a country so dramatically hot and dry in summer.
To assist the pro-Dalgety cause, artist Lionel Long produced a famous illustration of an idealised lakeside federal capital city at Dalgety.
It is a gorgeous sight. The city is an orgy of noble buildings and the waters are gloriously ornamental and are busy with frolickers boating.
Nearby, flatteringly repositioned and reshaped to give it a bit of a peak , majestic snow-capped Kosciuszko beams down on the city nestled at its feet. Lots of Lake Burley Griffin's horrors as colourfully catalogued by Dr Pittock derive from the fact that is made by damming a sluggish little river, the Molonglo. With nothing to keep new waters bustling through the lake and with various creeks and drains dribbling nastiness into it, it stands still, like 33 million cubic metres of mediocre soup in a giant saucepan.
A lake made by cajoling the Snowy as it was before the Snowy Scheme broke its spirit would surely have been a fresher creature altogether. What might have been ideal, your columnist dreams aloud for I am besotted with Dalgety and make pilgrimages to it would have been for Dalgety to be selected as the federal capital site before or after the mania for ornamental waters had governments and landscape architects in its grip.
Then we might have had, instead, a city that had its ornamental, metropolis-enhancing waters in the form of a river that ran through it. It might have been Dalgety, arranged around and along the Snowy, the way Budapest is with the Danube. To learn more about how to request items watch this short online video. You can view this on the NLA website.
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