Gismo Queen and her King

Day 5 - Gunnedah to Black Mountain

Glorious weather today - hot and sunny so we even cracked out the shorts! A slightly slower departure morning as Neill and Jude had a 9am appointment at the Telstra store to sort some data issues so the rest of us took our time, went and filled with fuel and waited. We were all the  on the road just after 9:30am and headed for Tamworth, the country music capital  of Australia. Upon arrival we sourced caravan parking (check) and a good coffee shop (check) and enjoyed our elevenses in the sunshine. We then sent Peter and Rhonda to the Golden Guitar while Neill and Jude went to yet another Telstra store to rectify this morning’s issues and Greg and I went to the electricity museum, where I was all prepared to correct their claim of being the first city in Australia to run electricity  and defend my hometown until I fact checked and learned that while Launceston had indeed set an Electric Light Act in 1884 (four years before Tamworth) it took them 7 more years to decide where to build the power  station (Duck Reach) and 3 more to construct it. So Tamworth was indeed the first to Light their streets with electricity.

Telstra took a little longer than planned so it was after 1:30pm before we all left Tamworth and hit the road, ready for the climb up the mountains. Over the next two hours we went from 400m elevation and 26C to 1300m elevation and 18C! Tonight we are in Black Mountain at Deano’s Trout Farm. We stayed here on our last trip in 2019 and liked what he was doing and trying to set up so we came back to support him. Having had good rain since then, his trout population  has grown nicely and he has made some great improvements to the farm. We bought more trout products, set up camp, lit the campfire (yes, you may notice a trend in my photos to date!) and enjoyed a delicious casserole as the night air got a lot cooler.

posted by Tracey @ 9:29 pm