Day 66: Sat 12 Jul 25 - Gunnedah to Cowra

Sat 12 Jul 25 - Gunnedah to Cowra (Towed 435km) 

Weather: 2 Deg, feeling like minus 1, reaching a top of 15 Deg, clear with light winds, feeling fresh again all day.

Another cold start to the day, and after a walk around town we hit the road aiming for Molong via Coolah, Dunedoo and Wellington. I was bit worried about the minor road that I took to Coolah instead of driving via Coonabarabran, but while a it was bit rough in places and hilly, it was very quiet. It turned out that I had nothing to be worried about. We stopped at Coolah for morning coffee and had a walk around. Not much to see here, just another lovely small country town. We continued on our way and had another quick stop at Dunedoo at the painted silo (Winx), and pushed on to about 7 km north of Wellington for a longer break including a bite to eat. This stop at a gravel pit was overlooking a massive solar farm. Sending the drone up for a few snaps revealed just how large the farm is - quite staggering really. A google search later revealed it covers more than 2350 acres in area with capacity for 1.2 million panels). We continued on our way and arrived in Molong with plenty of time, and still feeling OK, we decided to push on to Cowra for our overnight stay at a free camp, leaving only 177km to home tomorrow. 

Morning walk for another look at the amazing silo art portraying the poet Dorothea Mackellar with an extract from one of Australia's most renowned poems - My Country.
"I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!""

Like I needed a reminder of the temperature on my morning walk

Gunnedah Miners Memorial - commemorating 20 miners who died in mining accidents in Gunnedah over 89 years. 

Gunnedah Silos

Coolah 

Coolah - Black Stump Hotel

Coolah - Valley Hotel

Coolah Colour

Coolah Post Office


Dunedoo Painted Silo portraying the mighty Winx with local jockey Hugh Bowman and trainer Chris Waller.

A late lunch break at a road side rest stop next to this beast. Don't know if it is the Wellington or Wellington North Solar Farm, but a search revealed the North Farm has 750,000 solar panels, and will eventually (if not already) have 1.2 million panels 

Wellington / Wellington North Solar Farm

Wellington / Wellington North Solar Farm

Typical lush  green farmland seen on the way from Gunnedah today

Typical lush  green farmland seen on the way from Gunnedah today


Lush  green farmland one side - solar farm on the other side of the road

Solar Panels as far as the eye can see

Rest Stop near Wellington

Sun setting on our last day away before returning home tomorrow - an overnight freebie in Cowra.


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