Northern NSW – Winter 2018 – Day 3 – Back to New England Tableland

A delayed start to the morning to get a crack on the windscreen repaired – this masked woodswallow was outside the glass repair business.

Cotton and mining are the main industries around Narrabri.

Mount Kaputar National Park from the Boggabri Road.

Cooloobindi – a rock outcrop towering over the Kamilaroi Highway outside Boggabri.

Gum blossom at Boggabri

Musk lorikeet

Boggabri residents are proud of their name. The books were relatively clean.

Drought conditions near Gunnedah

Oxley Highway on the New England Tableland outside Bendemeer.

Apsley Falls gorge is near Walcha

Rock pool in the gorge which is part of the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Cypress pine hug the rocky sides.

Landslide Lookout – there was evidence of significant recent and historical landslides around the gorge.

A track over a suspension bridge crosses the river to other lookouts around the gorge.

Pacific black duck wading through azolla water fern.

This poll hereford got it hair styling ideas from 80s boy bands.

We were warned around deer on roads – these were in a paddock just ouside Walcha.

Walcha Man – part of a series of artistic pieces around town.

“Family” artwork in a park

Most of the autumn-toned trees had fully deciduated – this was the last of the colour.

We visited the local cemetery to see the grave of Nat Buchanan. He managed Bowen Downs station near Aramac in the 1860s and most likely knew my great-great grandfather who visited as a carrier between the station and Bowen. My great grandmother was born there in 1863. Buchanan introduced grazing to huge areas in northern Australia.