In the October school holidays we travelled to Bendemeer. It's a tiny country town 5 1/2 hours north west of Sydney in the "New England" area of NSW (between Tamworth and Armidale). We stayed in a cottage at a cattle farm.
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| It helps that neither child gets car sick reading in the car! |
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| Our cottage. |
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| Harrison declared breakfast the best part of the holiday. |
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| View from the farm gate. |
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| Moving cows from one paddock to another. |
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| Another day we headed out on the ute to feed the calves hay. |
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| They came running! |
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| We threw hay from the back of the ute... |
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| ..and hopped down to hand feed. |
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| On another day we had a tour of the farm on the back of the ute. |
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| This is Bendemeer! |
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| We had lots of fun playing in the river at Bendemeer. |
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| We visited Tamworth, country music capital of Australia. Here's Jon with the giant golden guitar! |
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| In Thunderbolt bushranger country, the town of Uralla we went goldpanning! |
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| We had fun but not sure we found much gold! |
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| Some mornings we stayed on the farm and did craft. |
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| This is a 1850s farm, Irish settlers came to"New England". |
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| Aspley falls. |