ever increasing in size, then onward to Boggagri where the ever changing landscape becomes hilly. Reaching Gunnedah late afternoon I receive directions to the showground for a relatively cheap stop over for $15 with power. I look forward to seeing more of this interesting town tomorrow.
I had the best sleep last night, only hearing one train sometime early this morning, took me back to my childhood when we stayed over at my grandparents who had their home near the railway line at Mulgrave near Richmond.
I've spotted a vacated concrete slab skirting the fence and will move kit and caboodle to that position before I start my tour of this lovely town. When the rain does come I wont worry so much. A limit of 3 nights stay here in the show ground, which is really a closed off area beside the show grounds, that suits me fine.
The rain arrived later in the afternoon, quite heavy at times during the night with thunder early Saturday morning before the sun broke through by mid morning.
Took a chance on Harvey Norman to help me out with my dead Fuji battery and sure enough assistance came with a Fuji charger found in a box so I left the battery to charge for a few hours while I toured the town. So this is the capital of Koalas, boasting they have the most healthy and numerous Koalas here, the map shows where they are, not that I could spot them. The first lookout I drove up was called "Pensioners Hill" and was called this as during 1890's and the 1930 depression, destitute families and swaggies lived in tents and humpies on the hill.
It now boasts beautiful sandstone sculptures.
The town itself it really quite large and all the roads seem very wide in the greater area of Gunnedah.
Author Dorothea Mackellar of the poem "My Country" lived here. You know the one...
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping planes,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
There is much to see here.....
The Liverpool Ranges in the distance, that's the direction I'll be traveling tomorrow morning, through Tamworth, Walcha, Wauchope and on to home. I may need another stop over?
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