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20210423 We stayed on the outskirts of Tenterfield in the Apex grounds with a nice running river but their was no yabbing for Des, it's bloody freezing here so we opted to stay in the van to keep warm but that didn't stop up from having a few drinks before  hitting the sack. We were told the streets in Tenterfield are all blocked off and there are detours signs everywhere, of cause we went the wrong, after we got the correct direction, we were on our way. The trees are full of color and as pretty as they are I would not like them in my yard, they drop way too many leaves for my liking. Passing the Girard State Forest and onto Mallanganee, The name of Mallanganee means “place of tall pines” and is located approx 40km west from Casino, and offers a pub and a small shop/post office that still is operating. The lush green hills and we pass through N.S.W. The harvesting of hay bales, life on the farm is made much easier with the new tools that roll, wrap and stand the bales up, pre...

20210421 We woke to a 1 degree bloody freezing morning, thank god we have a diesel heater, we meet a couple who came in late yesterday afternoon who didn't have a heater at all, stuff that. Des decided to go back to Glen Innes and find the Australian Standing Rocks, as they are called, not Stonehenge as I thought so I set google map for the site and within 10 minutes good old Google guided us in the correct direction. The Stones were created in 1991/92 and the stones commemorate all Celtic people who helped pioneer Australia. The Stones acknowledge the contribution to Australian culture made by people from the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias and Galicia. Look! is that a little leprechaun roaming the grounds .😏 The Ancient Celts were farming people who lived across Europe and the British Isles around 2600 years ago and raised stones as calendars to mark the change of seasons to help indicate when they should sow and harvest....

20210419 Back to Inverell for supplies before heading to Glen Innes, with our food restocked we head off chugging along when not far out of Inverell we spotted a Rest Stop under the Swan Brook Bridge, gee that looked as though their could be yabbies in that creek Des, then after a couple of minutes it must have got to him because he did a u-turn and headed back, bugger there's no reception but that's fine as I have my jigsaw to entertain me. Once we set up Des is quick to get his pots and in they go, now to sit back and wait to see if the yabbies take the bate. Swanbrook Rest Area is just off the Gwydir Highway at the half way point between Inverell and Glenn Innes and I must say for a rest area it's actually very nice, it has a lovely running creek, heaps of birds and I even got to see a turtle swimming by. This little Ren kept me entertained as I managed a few photos while he was hopping from branch to branch. With the sun setting Des heads out to checks his pot and I gra...

20210416 Ten minutes up the road we turned into a memorial dedicated to twenty-eight unarmed slaughted Indigenous Australians.  It's a 500 metre walk along a  serpentine path  with information plaques mapping out the details of a massacre in 1838. It was on the 18 December 1838 early in the morning when  seven men were publicly hanged for massacring Aboriginal people, they were the first British subjects to be executed in Australian following a supreme court trial that set a judicial precedent but unfortunately attitudes towards such massacres took longer to change.  It was a group of eleven stockmen who rode up to the Myall Creek Station hut, beside were a grope of thirty-five aboriginal people were camped after being invited to their station for their safety and protection from the gangs of murderous stockmen. The station hut keeper asked, what are you going to do with the Aboriginal people, just take them over the the range and frighten them, said the stockme...

20210414 On our way to Bingara to camp at our favorite camps on the Gwydir River for a week, but we are a bit skeptical as the floods waters caused some damage a few weeks ago.  There are four camps free along the river and ours was about 8 ks out of Bingara. Arriving at our special spot we noticed the camp very over grown and the trees had sprouted taller blocking the sun, after checking out the grounds all the spot we taken so we left in search of a new one.  Calling into another camp we walked the unleavened rocky ground and found a spot only it was occupied by a guy sun baking and lucky for us he was hiding behind his car when I noticed he had no cloths on as I backed up, then Des said he had a gee string on, so we promptly left him to his privacy.  We're not having much luck and we're getting frustrated driving around, the camps are either full or we can't access them, disappointed we head to the caravan park. 20210415 Des made the big decision to drive 20ks up the r...