Moving along

Well tonight we are at Narrabri, moving west from Tamworth. We spent a couple of nights at Wallabadah rest area about 50ks from Tamworth behind the memorial to the 1st and 2nd fleet, a fleet of ships which left Great Britain bringing convicts to Australia in about 1787. A great memorial, and lovely little spot for camping, free, about 10 vans there each night. We took a day trip into Tamworth, had look around town, nice shopping mall, lots of trees. Very popular to have reverse angle parking in the streets around this area, it means the rear of your car is at the kerb at a 45 degree angle, locals seem quite clever at it, but a bit disconcerting when the car in front of you stops and does a reverse in front of you. We took a scenic route back to our camp taking in the gold mining town of Nundle and Chaffey Dam, camping is allowed at the dam and we did consider whether to camp there for a couple of nights but decided we would carry on. We plan to head to Burren Junction tomorrow, Sunday and free camp around the artesian pools....... Weather is warmer in the day here but cool nights. Driving through the area we could see white woolly stuff all along the rd, turns out to be that cotton is grown in this area and it was that along the road dropping of the trucks.

Looking down on Tamworth from the lookout, drove down that street to the town centre, found a nice coffee place and an Aldi!!!

Chaffey Dam, camping around the other side

Memorial garden to the First Fleet

Found a Rimmer in the list of crew, nothing on convict list if course

Yes I wondered why Wallabadah too

Gins Leap, on our travels today we stopped here. Story is a young Aboriginal girl and her lover from another tribe ran away together, were pursued and leapt to their deaths here... Sad...