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Meanwhile, the New South Wales city of Orange experienced its most significant fall in four years. And just a few hours from Sydney snowballs were hurled as winter delivered its parting gift.

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00:00For someone who'd never seen snow before, this boy had a pretty good aim.
00:07Sydneysiders enjoyed an unusually short trip to the snow.
00:10Probably three hours, so yeah, we've been pretty lucky.
00:14Flakes swirled through the windy streets of Blackheath at dawn, coating rooftops, caking cars,
00:20and sprinkled like icing sugar across meadows west of the Blue Mountains.
00:25Bloody cold.
00:26Got this to warm up.
00:28Golf balls would have been hard to spot in orange, snowmen not so much.
00:32I woke up and I looked up the patio and patio window and I whacked myself and I was like,
00:39is this a dream or am I, is this real life?
00:43In Oberon, there was no Midsummer Night's dream.
00:46Instead, a winter's fantasy came true.
00:49This is actually quite substantial and I think further up will be more.
00:53There was slush on the road up to nearby Shooter's Hill,
00:56where ammunition for a snowball fight was abundant.
00:59Well, looking at these snow-covered pines, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere in the Austrian Alps.
01:05But this forest south of Oberon is just a few hours' drive from Sydney,
01:09and the coverage is thick enough for snow sports.
01:18In Victoria, shovelers worked up an appetite on dinner plain.
01:22An end of season gift to skiers and snowmen.
01:27two hours' drive from Sydney in the pole.
01:28I'm going to learn all this.
01:29I'm going to start with a gentle girl.
01:30I'm going to get to people who's in the desert in the snow than I do,
01:32you know, a little bit of this,
01:33that's para-living that.
01:35You can start with a tiny girl.
01:36You can start with a 90 minutes.
01:37It's just a little bit of a future.
01:38I'm going to take a little bit of this.
01:39I'm going to get to the middle of that journey.
01:40To find a little bit of a smooth way with the joy in the sun,
01:41that's a bit of a beautiful way with the water-living.
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