Salzkammergut

We spent the evening at an aire near Bad Aussee, torrential rains continuing. Since we were entering the Salzkammergut, the lake country east of Salzburg, we decided to watch The Sound of Music, much of which was filmed in the area.  Corny as it sounds, it's a movie we still enjoy. After the Grossglockner, we weren't going to climb any more mountains, nor ford any streams (too high with all the rain, etc.). Anyhow, the next day (Sunday?) we did a driving tour of the Salzkammergut, ending up at the Panorama Campground in Salzburg.

Traditional boats on Halstattsee; we had wanted to visit

Hallstatt again, as we did in 1989, but there was no RV

parking, and the natives did not seem friendly

One sees much evidence of logging in the Alps--logging

trucks like this one, mills scattered here and there; but

never any clear-cuts or anything unsightly

A canoe-catcher on the river (weir)

On Traunsee, approaching Gmund, the Traunkirchen, which

is pictured prominently in Sound of Music

Closer-up of Traunkirchen and its amazing

backdrop north of the Dachstein Gruppe

Market square in pretty Mondsee

The Mondsee Basilika, where Maria and the

Captain married

Interior

Mondsee and more of the Dachsteins

Austrians seem to think they have an identity

problem (I think a Jim Carey line in Dumb

and Dumber led to this)