Nundle Wool Mill and Mt Misery Gold Mine

Nundle Wool
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What a day...didn't get up until 9am, then Helen did the washing and we then went via the chemist to pick up my script. As it was they hadn't unpacked their order from Sydney and I had to wait a while. The Chemist said that the rules in NSW were that my script should stay at one chemist but because I was travelling they would dispense it and give me the script back. From there we set TomTom to find Nundle for us. An indifferent road through a rural area of very mixed farms. Sheep, cattle, forage and hay makers and grapes. Then Nundle, well not much so we parked on a side street and visited the Mt Misery Gold Mine which was ok generally and had a old goldmine like display. Plus a visitor not to do with gold, but a blue tongue lizard. For a start I thought it was part of the display, but it moved. From there we looked at the Nundle Woollen Mill, the Pottery and found the lady who operates the shop was on her pottery wheel out the back turning a big bowl that will become a fish bowl on a Chinese stand. The Wool Mill was at a stand to and as we wandered in there was no one else in there. It was disappointing to see that most of the products sold there had been manufactured in China. The wool products made at the mill are sold at a price well out of my pocket and some other people I was talking to too. From there to the pub for a cup of coffee and a hot chocolate and a sausage roll. We had heard that the view from Hanging Rock was pretty good so we drove to the top of the mountain. In the old days cars coming down the road towed a log to slow them down. The road is now two way and sealed all the way. In the old Gold days it was one-way and treacherous. Drove back to Tamworth via the dirt road that was the original Fossickers Way and follows the Peel River down to Chaffey Dam and stopped at Eidelweiss Gifts. The road came into Tamworth East. Some of the old photos in the mine showed bullock carts being driven along this road. Got the same headache tonight on the left and although I have taken 4 panadol today it still niggling and the fuse is a bit short too. Photos tonight are pretty well self explanatory. Hanging Rock is not the one where the little school girls were lost, that one is somewhere in Victoria.