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4. Moree to Lightning Ridge

October 29, 2023 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 25 Comments

Sunday 15th October 2023 After a light continental breakfast and chat with a Canadian family who are returning to Melbourne after a holiday in Queensland, we topped up on fuel and pulled out of Moree around 9.30am Sunday morning heading west on the two-lane Gwydir Highway, destination Lightning Ridge via Collarenebri.  As usual I took … Continue reading 4. Moree to Lightning Ridge

Home is the Wanderer

October 28, 2023 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 22 Comments

Last day on the road: Friday 27th October 2023 After 16 nights / 17 days on the road, we have returned home. We pretty much circumnavigated New South Wales on this trip, or as much as could be accessed without needing a four-wheel drive vehicle, such as is called for to go waaaay outback to … Continue reading Home is the Wanderer

1. Mt Hutton (near Newcastle) to Tamworth

October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 14 Comments

Thursday 12th October 2023 Note: I'll include several links in this post and leave it to the reader's discretion to click through or not. I didn’t finish blogging about our road trip to Temora last February, and here we are now on a different trip in a different part of New South Wales. We are … Continue reading 1. Mt Hutton (near Newcastle) to Tamworth

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