Tim the Yowie Man | Snowy River revitalised with high-flow release | The Canberra Times

We have time for another coffee because it takes about six hours for water from Jindabyne Dam to reach Dalgety. Of course, we are not the first to wait here. For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines waited for river levels to drop sufficiently to continue their seasonal journeys into the mountains for ceremonial purposes. Later, in the mid-1800s, wagons loaded with goods sometimes had to wait weeks after a major snowmelt. Of course, the opening of the town’s now iconic bridge in 1888 changed this forever.