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Favorite thing: Take the Snowy Mountains Highway out of town, heading towards Cooma and follow the signs to the Blowering Dam. The journey takes 12 km. The dam is impressive with the wall being over 120 metres high. It has the second largest storage capacity in the whole Snowy Mountains project.
However, should you drive along its length to the Tumut 3 Power Station during summer holidays, you may be surprised to see just how many people come to this lovely dam.

Fondest memory: The dam was the site where the world's longest water-ski run occurred when someone kept going for 1673 km.
It also became the location of the world water speed record when Ken Warby travelled across it on a tunell hulled craft called "Spirit of Australia" at 510.45 km/hour in 1978. There were features on his craft that could have been better engineered so its full potential was never realised.
The record still stands today, as of 2013.

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Favorite thing: The old hotels with their wrought iron verandahs are a special treat for viewers of architecture, but even if they have worked wooden balconies they are still attractive.
Tumut has its share as shown in these pictures.

Fondest memory: The Oriental Hotel was originally known as the Queens Arms. It is a classic goldrush era building showing off its affluence. There was a pub on this site as early as 1850 and the first publican was a man named Madigan. This new hotel was designed and built by Frederick Kinred about 1876. He took up Madigan's license. It has a beautiful wrought iron verandah.

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Favorite thing: More photos of the flowers during spring time of 2008 (September). Overall, spring is a good season to visit Tumut and surrounding areas due to the pleasant and cool weather, as well as the flowers and greenery all around.

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Favorite thing: When I was in Tumut and surrounding areas during September 2008, it was spring time and the flowers and trees were blooming. Very beautiful and colourful flowers can be seen as shown in the attached photographs.

More information and photos are at part 2 of this tip.

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Favorite thing: The Tumut River flows pass the town of Tumut and offers great walking opportunities along its banks to enjoy the countryside scenery with the farms, cows, trees and surrounding mountains. Do be careful of the fast flowing water along some parts of the river.

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Favorite thing: While at the town of Tumbarumba, I visited the Lauder Oval where there was a local horse event going on. It was a competition where different teams on horses played different games. There was a festive atmosphere and a good gathering of families and friends. It was an enjoyable experience for me as a whole.

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Favorite thing: I managed to mingle around with some chickens and visit their egg shed when I was in Tumut. It was en enjoyable and relaxing experience, especially since I lived in a city where there is hardly any chance to visit the lovely and green countryside.

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Favorite thing: There were several animal encounters when I was in the areas surrounding tumut, including meeting an echinda, large tortoise, kangeroos, wombat holes as well as lots of cows!

I was told that this area of New South Wales has lots of native animals, so do keep a lookout and do be careful when driving :-)