Hill End is a couple or so hours drive out of Mudgee the roads are good and not so good. Once out of town there are several long stretches of unsealed road. It is a bit like driving on a pebble beach and you leave a trail of dust behind you. We were lucky and did not have to follow any other vehicles. The bull dust as we call it is very fine and gets in to everything. This post is mainly photos of the countryside and the town of Hill End. Expensive place, a mug (chipped) of tea is $3.50 say seven quid!
So there is Hill End once a thriving place in the 1850's goldrush and now a ghost town. This neck of the woods is getting close to the Black Stump and in Oz parlance there is nothing beyond that.
Bye for now, we have had 11 days of rain, a 75 year record for April, I'm starting to get homesick, NOT.
Here is a shot of the park, it is huge, nobody knows for sure what is down there. A few years back a botanist found the Wollemmi Pine, this tree goes back to the dinosaurs! That flat topped moutain does look a bit like "The Lost World". Just out of interest England will fit in to NSW about four times and the majority of us live on a narrow coastal strip.
This is the main drag in Mudgee some great old buildings and nice wide streets, it is quite a laid back place, everyone says "G'day" to you on the street.
Here is a typical country road around this area and was taken on our way to Hill End a couple of hours out of Town.
Here is one of many of these signs out in the bush, you have to be careful when driving in the early morning and at dusk, a hitting roo can make a real mess of your car. The animal on the bottom of the sign is a wombat and the white stuff on the grass is frost. The photo was taken early morning on our return to Sydney. It was quite foggy in places with heavy frost on the paddocks.
