The drive into Murwillumbah is spectacular. Mount Warning stands prominently in the distance with rolling green countryside falling away from hills punctuated with crops of sugar cane and banana plantations. The area looks fertile and the crops are obviously...
If you do a Google Map search for Fingal, you will actually come across a place called Fingal in Tasmania. However, on mentioning this to Geoff Mack, the writer of “I’ve been everywhere”, he said that the Fingal he had in mind when writing the song...
I headed from Dalveen back into New South Wales across an insignificant border crossing with just a basic signpost giving my new state and take the turn to Woodenbong. Now there are rough roads, very rough roads and then there is the road to Woodenbong. Whilst the...
Day 26 – 10,733 KM. Town 53. After stopping the night in Barrabri, I continued my journey north to Emmaville. Unfortunately the bad weather deteriorated further and when news bulletins started to announce details of towns being evacuated due to flooding (the worst...
Day 25 – 10,727 KM. Town 52. Today is officially the first day of autumn and the weather has turned overcast and showery on cue as I head north to the town of Boggabri. Boggabri has proven to be a bit illusive for me as somehow I managed to miss the town when I was...
Day 26 – 10,165 KM. Town 51. Girraween is a residential suburb in western Sydney. On driving through there was little other than many houses, with the town presumably acting as a dormitory suburb for Sydney workers. Unfortunately the present Girraween has little to...
