20160518 NSW Gunnedah to Barraba

20160518 Passing Tamba Springs to Mullaley onto Gunnedah, situated amid the black soil plains of the Namoi River valley and the district has a booming wheat, cotton and cattle industry and the large koala population has led to Gunnedah’s self-proclaimed title of the koala capital of the world.  Gunnedah was named after the Gunn-e-darr people and the word means ‘the place of white stone’.

The Monument is dedicated to the mining in and around Gunnedah.  The 1980’s and 1990’s produced two lengthy disputes, the Preston site lasting 56 days and Vickery Dispute lasting 355 days.

Gunnedah Town Centre

The pub with $8 counter meals with frozen vegies.

I don’t know what we did but we took a wrong turn somewhere and this is what we found, sheep, sheep and more sheep.

Nope, Attunga was not on our root.

This is where we were supposed to come out Manilla, are well it was only 24ks out of our way.

Manilla’s Town Centre but we didn’t stop just drove through.

We noticed many cattle grazing along the way and when we stopped to collect wood a drover on a quad bike called in for a chat, it’s so dry and no water they drovers roam the country to feed the cattle and they are long days.

Passing through Barraba as it’s getting late and we like to be parked up before 3 or 4pm to avoid the animals on the road.