We were all up early and met at breakfast before packing up our tents and driving home. Judith and Hugh were the first to leave followed by Chrissy, John and Buster. I took a little long to pack my gear but was on the way by 8.30am. I took the short route to Tamworth as I wanted to look around the town. I had booked a cabin in the same caravan park as last Tuesday.
The route cut of a big corner by using some back roads and I only had just over 320Km to drive. The back road was just over 100km and went through some isolated farming country with one little village with a truck stop where I had a coffee and a cake. I made good time to Tamworth and parked in town before walking to the Biennial Park which has a Country Music performing area, a row of busts of famous country music performers and two impressive war memorials. Tamworth is the centre of Australian Country Music an has a festival every year where artists are honoured by being awarded a Golden Guitar.
When we arrived in Australia in 1960 and got our first television set we were both really fond of the Country Music Show hosted by Reg Lindsay. He was a great singer and had a great group of artists and dancers every week.
Tamworth was a major supplier of Waler Horses for the First World War. These are stock horse who came from the original group of horses on the First Fleet in 1788. They are supposed to have been used by the 4th Division of the Australian Light Horse Brigade in the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 when the Australians made, what is thought to be the last cavalry charge in a major war.
I checked into my cabin and prepared Sundays blog before picking up a take away hamburger and chips and going to bed early.
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