{"id":22604,"date":"2020-06-04T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T06:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=22604"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T23:10:19","slug":"bingara-australia-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=22604","title":{"rendered":"Bingara, New South Wales \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 3rd June 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 152 kms from Tamworth to Bingara in the North-West Region of New South Wales  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Barraba and Bingara <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Bingara Riverside Caravan Park $28 all services. S29.86428, E150.577838<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget: NA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the Fossickers Way we head north for Bingara. The GPS indicates two hours travel time. Once again there is very little traffic and we find ourselves easy sitting on the speed limit as the farms pass by. We had an email from Yvonne yesterday recommending a stop at Barraba to view the famous silos, so that\u2019s our planned first stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking in the beautiful farm country along the Fossickers Way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Approaching Manilla some 60 kms north of Tamworth we spotted some silos and got a little excited but no murals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Had to take a photo of this historic old Imperial Hotel in Manilla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple of kms south of Barraba we arrive at Fintan Magee\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commissioned and painted in 2019 this mural capturing 3 scenes of a water diviner at work. Amazingly it only took 3 weeks to complete.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This photo shows the rich black soil north of Barraba. It only needs water..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A long narrow bridge on the Fossickers Way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back on the road for another 40 minutes we roll into Bingara. The GPS takes us straight to the caravan park, it\u2019s well located about 7-8 minutes walk to the town centre. Fronting the Gwydir River gives it a pleasant aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Settling into to our overnight spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Once settled we walk into town for a look around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We thought this was the best cottage in Bingara. It\u2019s for sale but we thought $435K was a bit steep.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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First thing we find is this little park and pavilion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bingara Couthouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Perhaps the pub with no beer. You could get a coffee but the bar was closed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We find some beautiful murals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The shadows are getting long and you can feel the chill as we make our way back to the Winnebago. We didn\u2019t find anything suitable for dinner (any unsuitable either), so it\u2018s left over Chinese tonight. On our return we chat with our new overnight neighbours, Bruce and Corinne for Wollongong. They are milling around the north-west waiting for the Queensland border to re-open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chat over a drink before retreating to the camper for dinner. Finishing the night watching another episode of Chernobyl. Cannot recommend the mini-series highly enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another cold morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Up not so early, we head for a walk around 8.30ish. First priority a coffee. We made our way to the Bingara Bake House, which managed to produce a couple of acceptable double shots. They have a great range of all sort of delights so we plan to call back after our walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spend the next hour walking the back roads of Bingara, even finding a substantial race course. That done we detour for pies, chocolate brownies and bread rolls. We drop in to the butcher for some sausages as well, before heading back to the Winnebago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Found this most unusual tree as we walked the back streets of Bingara.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You know your in the country when…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s well after 11 by the time we have readied the camper, wished our neighbours well and rolled out the gate and turn for Warialda…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: 3rd June 2020 Travelled: 152 kms from Tamworth to Bingara in the North-West Region of New South Wales   Visited: Barraba and Bingara  Stayed: Bingara Riverside Caravan Park $28 all services. S29.86428, E150.577838  Budget: NA Following the Fossickers Way we head north for Bingara. The GPS indicates two hours travel time. Once again there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,122],"tags":[124,125,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-22604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-new-south-wales","9":"tag-country-towns-nsw","10":"tag-new-south-wales","11":"tag-silos","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22604"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27748,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604\/revisions\/27748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}