The Alexander Maconochie (corrective services) Centre
(yellow arrow), on the Monaro Highway, as it appears from ‘the Ridge’, Callum
Brae Nature Park. Indicated with green arrows are new housing estates in
New South Wales, some residents of which (as if they didn’t have enough to
worry about with water supply and aircraft noise and everything) protested
about the AMC being constructed within their line of view. The former
pastureland in the foreground is where scarlet and frame robins are frequently
seen in Winter. The grasslands on Callum Brae and in the valley in the
middle distance are said to be the haunt of remnant populations of the Striped
Legless Lizard, a rare species the holotype of which is believed to have been
destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in World War II.
