Paul and Dixies Eskdale-ent adventure-10 days,many K's

Paul and Dixies Esdale-ent Adventure Day 2 Quirindi to Bathurst

Paul and Dixies Eskdale-ent Avdenture Day 2 Quirindi to Bathurst


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I have a bad habit of waking at unnatural hours when away from home and getting pictures of the sunrise.This is independent of the amount of alcohol consumed prior and the time of retiring
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Re: Paul and Dixies Esdale-ent Adventure Day 2 Quirindi to Bathurst

There is some nice riding on the New England Highway
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These ranges attracted me (and I know where they go)
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we LOVE Cressfield Road
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A little water to cool the tyres
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A bit further on..SOO Close!! to my backroad adventure”!
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40 cm water is just a little too deep for this “Adventure rider” newbie




No worries,I retreat to the highway but am rewarded with this on the return trip
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A breakfast snag roll and chocky milk at Muswellbrook
and the Strom attracted a Beemer rider. I attempted to exchange pleasantries but was somewhat ignored. Maybe he was overwhelmed by the sheer “common sense” of the Strom.
Typically outfitted in the BMW riding suit, bike spotless and no luggage to be seen, it was observed the (condescending) “Gent” partook of a skim latte' The chaps name BTW was Fuk Yu
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Re: Paul and Dixies Eskdale-ent Adventure (Day 1) Alstonville to Quirindi

So that's what Quirindi looks like. Almost every time I've ever been through there I've cut across from Werris Creek to Caroona and the only time I came up the Kamilaroi Hwy I turned off before Quirindi and headed up through Wallabadah and Goonoo Goonoo.

Re: Paul and Dixies Esdale-ent Adventure Day 2 Quirindi to Bathurst

LOL Luggage snobbery.

I was lonely! lol.

Leaving Muswellbrook I took the Dartmoor turnoff and enjoyed some dairy flats and crossed a very old bridge.
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Wybong Road this will take me across to the Golden Hwy and “The Bylong Valley Way”
A MUST for motorcyclists I,ve heard




Nice long hills and dales but the earthen mound along the roadside and the mesh security fence hinted that there was something going on..



I stopped the bike and had to stand on the footpegs and use LOTS of zoom to capture this train of trucks trundling down into the massive mine.To be fair the mine activities are fairly discrete in the sense that they are obstructed from view, many hills around have been man made from the overburden but are not unnatractive.



Just to remind me where I've been! (Denman way) I turned around to take the picture.



Nice land around here.


On The Bylong Way now

I dont know why I took a picture of this bridge..

North again from Muswellbrook?
Hope, you found Kayuga and the Castle Rock Rd. (the backroad that actually passes underneath "The Rock") , then Wybong Rd. into Sandy Hollow....next stop Bylong Vly ?

Castle Rock Rd. is sweet...and a few k's of dirt where it looks like a private driveway , peetering out....just to start again as a single-lane tar-road after the next bend.

Edit: posting past eachother at the moment
Just saw the pic of Kayuga/Wybong....no Castle Rock then.

Paul n Dixie said:

..... many hills around have been man made from the overburden but are not unnatractive.

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....if you'd only ever seen the Upper Hunter from about 15 years ago, it'd bring tears to your eyes, mate.
This used to be a gently undulating, wide valley floor full of good stands of gums and deciduous trees, clusters of poplars, farms and corn-fields amongst vineyards stretching to the horizon.
Hope they'll never get to rape the Bylong as savagely as that... but the brandnew railway line is already there and extraction rights/ property acquisitions for coal-seam gas and fracking hotly fought over.