Dalgety Blues Size:L A timber cottage with a

A timber cottage with a rusted corrugated iron roof sits low in a hollow

A corrugated iron drovers' hut stands in open

left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006

A timber staircase inside one of the tourism-era structures at Waratah Park

These are the remnants of rural settlement in the Snowy Monaro region

Dalgety Blues Size:L A timber cottage with aFading blue paint peels from the weatherboard walls of an abandoned building in Dalgety, New South Wales. The town sits on the Snowy River in the southern Monaro, and was evaluated as a potential site for Australia's federal capital between 1902 and 1903, before the decision ultimately went against it. Dust settles on empty rooms. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.