Gismo Queen and her King

Hay to Dubbo - 10 June 2019

Such a perfect campsite - in a winery, where the owners cooked us dumplings for dinner!!! Does it get any better than this?

A big day’s driving, well over 500km with plenty of rain this morning. We set off early but the rain slowed us down - it was actually very heavy at times. Good for them, as we were driving through areas that normally don’t get much rain but did it have to be the morning we were on the road?! We stopped for morning tea (elevenses) in Goolgowi - where we camped one night last year - and had our coffee and banana muffins in Cafe Bushtracker as it was still raining. Then onto West Wyalong where we stopped for fuel and lunch. The road varied in condition en route as we drove on, stopping in Forbes for the all important dump point and then keeping on keeping on along the Newell, turning off before Dubbo to the Red Earth Winery.

A Chinese couple - Lin and Hilary bought this winery two years ago and now encourage camping out the back (we are parked within a metre of the grapes) and serve dumplings with wine tasting in the cellar door. So we arrived here at 5pm, set up, and headed straight in to the wine cellar for our dumplings. Lin served is for the next couple of hours, with plenty of stories and the most delicious dumplings. We rolled back out to van for an early night - much needed after not only a big day driving,  but also the gas detector going off twice in the middle of last night!

posted by Tracey @ 8:19 pm