We took a back road to here and really enjoyed being off the bitumen and experiencing these quaint places. The road was pretty good but narrow in places. We even saw horses - not sure if they were wild or not.
Lots of the areas we travelled through were once mining towns but now just a few remnants of those busy days remain. We loved this little place where we had morning tea and how good are these buildings?
Our hearts did drop a little when after morning tea - about 50 kms into our trip, we saw this sign - and thought we’d have to turn back.
However, the quick thinking Dennis and Darryl, popped over to ask the local publican about the road and he said we’d be ok - which of course we were! Cobb & Co coaches used to travel in these areas as well - probably very busy servicing the mines.
Here in Chillagoe, there are the most interesting rock formations everywhere and especially interesting is this balancing rock. We didn’t however, get to explore the numerous caves around here. We will always remember this town as the guinea fowl town as we’ve seen hundreds - they wander all over the place and are very cute.
This town was once a bustling mining town, mining copper, gold, lead and zinc and we saw the remnants of the smelter -
The main purpose for coming here was to see the private Ford collection. This chap has been collecting for years and Dennis & Darryl spent a few hours there and loved it! Old Tom was the local BP distributer and carrier and had many tales to tell - but was also very difficult to understand so there was a lot of nodding going on!!
This park has suited us - we are parked how we like, can have our wood fire, the laundry got a good work out and the pool was lovely to cool off in. Dennis is now cutting some wood from the pile near us to fill up our boxes.
We’ve yet to sit down to decide where we’ll go tomorrow but we are confident we’ll be somewhere pretty good again. We hope this finds everyone well. Till later, love from the travellers. ❌❌❌❌
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