DSCN0158.JPG=Flooding on the roads near the Amberley RAAF base.
DSC_0148.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0145.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0082.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall for Colin Buchanan's excellent show
TD15.JPG=Views South from the Moonbi Lookout (panorama)
TD10.JPG=Powerhouse Museum (panorama)
DSC_0141.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0001.JPG=Loaded and ready to leave with three bikes and our new Yamaha scooter in the back
DSCN0155.JPG=After Cunningham's Gap there was lots of flooding on the roads near the Amberley RAAF base.
DSC_0146.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0153.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
GOLDEN GUITAR.JPG=Tamworth, Big Golden Guitar complex and the Stockyard Hotel
DSC_0050.JPG=Tamworth Community Centre
DSC_0142.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0092.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall for Colin Buchanan's excellent show
DSCN0143.JPG=Stormy evening in Tamworth
DSC_0014.JPG=TCM festival complete with rides, sideshows, stalls, and of course plenty of buskers.
DSC_0005.JPG=BACK IN BRISBANE - The next day after arriving home, (Brisbane) and the Wynnum Esplanade was experiencing serious flooding.
DSCN0139.JPG=Stormy evening in Tamworth
DSC_0023.JPG=Peel River in Tamworth on the other side of Bridge Street
DSC_0006.JPG=Warwick Catholic Church
TJ01.JPG=Stormy final evening in Tamworth (panorama). We decided to leave for home a day early to visit the Lamb and Potato festival in Guyra.
DSC_0040.JPG=TCM festival - the legendary Chad Morgan appearing at the shopping centre; his songs sound awful but a real entertainer
DSC_0149.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0109.JPG=Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre - TREC big screen
DSC_0107.JPG=Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre - TREC
DSCN0152.JPG=Continuing on home through stormy conditions on the New England Highway, through Warwick. Eventually we were held up for around 45 mins (at the Cunningham's Gap summit) while trees were cleared from the road
DSC_0147.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0102.JPG=Performers at the "Golden Guitar"
DSCN0135.JPG=At the Tamworth Town Hall - after Graeme Connors show we spotted this "artistic car"
DSC_0032.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall.
DSC_0103.JPG=Tamworth, Big Golden Guitar complex and the Stockyard Hotel
DSC_0010.JPG="Hands of Fame" park, Tamworth
WynnumFloods (6).JPG=Wynnum Creek
DSC_0155.JPG=Peel Street telegraph display by the Telstra Museum
DSC_0016.JPG=Tamworth - lovely old Post Office.
DSCN0153.JPG=Stormy conditions on the New England Highway at the Cunningham's Gap summit
DSCN0138.JPG=Another stormy evening in Tamworth - apparently it is like this regularly during the TCM festival
DSC_0112.JPG=Troy Cassar-Daley at the TREC
DSCN0140.JPG=Stormy evening in Tamworth
DSC_0155b (14).JPG=Guyra Mother of Ducks Lagoon, high-country wetlands area
WynnumFloods (3).JPG=Broken concrete capping washed from the wall of the Wynnum Esplanade. Some of the pieces would weigh 200kg
DSC_0132.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0080.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall; Colin Buchanan and Laurel Edwards
DSC_0097.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall; Colin Buchanan and Lee Kernaghan
TD03a.JPG=Tamworth viewed from the Oxley lookout (panorama)
DSCN0148.JPG=Pouring rain in Guyra spoiled the festival - few visitors and some exhibitors leaving early
DSCN0149.JPG=Guyra monument to the sheep farmers
DSC_0041.JPG=TCM festival - the legendary Chad Morgan
DSC_0106.JPG=Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre - TREC
WF03.JPG=This yacht in Wynnum Creek had been extensively damaged and was blocking the creek - no-one was interested in going out though. (panorama)
DSCN0147.JPG=\
It had started to rain just after we left Tamworth and by the time we arrived in Guyra, it was pouring
TD11.JPG=Powerhouse Museum (panorama)
TD12.JPG=Powerhouse Museum (panorama)
DSC_0140.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
Powerstation_MuseumR.jpg=Tamworth was the first town in Australia to be lit by electricity, in 1888. This building was turned into The Tamworth Powerhouse Museum and opened in 1988.
WF01.JPG=Wynnum Creek. (panorama)
DSC_0101.JPG=Dry ground in Tamworth
Moonbi lookout.jpg=Travelling north along the New England Highway, on the first Moonbi Hill, is the Moonbi Lookout perched on a huge granite outcrop with some beautiful views South toward Moonbi
DSC_0131.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0035.JPG=Tamworth telephone exchange
WynnumFloods (5).JPG=Wynnum Creek
DSC_0021.JPG=Tamworth, a quiet Bridge Street.
DSC_0128.JPG=Peel Street stck whip maker
DSC_0099.JPG=TCM sponsor Telstra
WynnumFloods (1).JPG=Wynnum Creek and the road into the Fish Market
DSC_0064.JPG=TCM festival buskers; this kid was good.
DSCN0133.JPG=At the Tamworth Town Hall - Graeme Connors excellent show
TD16.JPG=Views South from the Moonbi Lookout (panorama)
DSC_0074.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall; Colin Buchanan.
DSC_0084.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall for Colin Buchanan's excellent show
DSC_0002.JPG=Three bikes on the back
DSC_0018.JPG=Guyra Mother of Ducks Lagoon is an unusual high-country wetlands area
TD06.JPG=Tamworth stormy evening skies; spectacular red sunsets from the Coonabarabran bushfires. (panorama)
DSC_0144.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0143.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
TD05.JPG=Tamworth stormy evening skies; in the first few days that we were there, smoke from the Coonabarabran bushfires gave spectacular red sunsets. (panorama)
DSC_0086.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall for Colin Buchanan's excellent show
DSC_0017.JPG=TCM festival principal sponsor was Toyota; a new V8 Landcruiser wagon costs $128,000 - OUCH
DSC_0133.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0069.JPG=TCM festival buskers; strong Sth American style flute musicians.
DSC_0152.JPG=Powerhouse Museum
DSC_0096.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall; Colin Buchanan and Lee Kernigan
TD03.JPG=South Tamworth viewed from the Oxley lookout (panorama)
DSCN0126.JPG=\
At the Tamworth Town Hall - Graeme Connors excellent show
DSCN0146.JPG=Guyra Post Office
DSCN0125.JPG=\
At the Tamworth Town Hall - Graeme Connors introduction by Glenn A Baker
DSC_0051.JPG=Tamworth Community Centre  Graham Rodger (Aussie Icons) Show
TD14.JPG=Views South from the Moonbi Lookout (panorama)
DSC_0117.JPG=Troy Cassar-Daley at the TREC
DSC_0154.JPG=In Tamworth, the famous Carlton Clydesdales
DSCN0161.JPG=Flooding on the roads near the Amberley RAAF base.
TD01.JPG=Peel River in Tamworth (panorama)
TD02.JPG=North Tamworth viewed from the Oxley lookout (panorama)
DSC_0013.JPG="Hands of Fame" park, Tamworth
DSC_0058.JPG=Tamworth Community Centre  Graham Rodger (Aussie Icons) Show
DSC_0078.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall; Colin Buchanan and Troy Cassar Daley
DSC_0059.JPG=Tamworth Community Centre  Graham Rodger (Aussie Icons) Show
TD08.JPG=Tamworth War Memorial Town Hall. (panorama)
DSCN0144.JPG=Stormy evening in Tamworth
WynnumFloods (7).JPG=Near Wynnum Creek
DSC_0118.JPG=Greg Campbell withTroy Cassar-Daley at the TREC
DSC_0012.JPG=Tamworth has many "Art-Deco" style buildings.
TamworthJoy.jpg=Collage of pics from Joy's visit to the Wax Museum. Slim Dusty, Chad Morgan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Lee Kernigan, Beccy Cole, Jimmy Little, Reg Lindsay, Tex Morton, Johnny Chester, McKeon Sisiters, Rick and Thel Carey, Tim McNamara, Pixie Jenkins.
DSC_0155b (16).JPG=Guyra Mother of Ducks Lagoon, high-country wetlands area
TD07.JPG=Tamworth stormy evening skies; spectacular red sunsets from the Coonabarabran bushfires. (panorama)
DSC_0066.JPG=Tamworth. Smoky Dawson, who died in February 2008, has a seat in the Country Music Festival’s boulevard of dreams, aka Peel Street
DSC_0022.JPG=Tamworth; the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame
DSC_0033.JPG=Tamworth; Colonial style building housing State Govt departments
TD09.JPG=Another red sunset toward Coonabarabran
WynnumFloods (4).JPG=You would wonder how waves in the protected bay could have the power to break and shift the concrete pieces
DSCN0151.JPG=Guyra Soldiers Memorial Hall
TD13.JPG=Camped at the Mother of Ducks Lagoon, Guyra on the NSW Northern Tablelands
WynnumFloods (2).JPG=Wynnum Esplanade
DSCN0124.JPG=At the Tamworth Town Hall - Graeme Connors excellent show. Graeme is a prolific Australian country music singer, songwriter and performer, born in Mackay, Queensland. He is best known for the hits A Little Further North and Let The Canefields Burn
DSC_0020.JPG=Tamworth has many "Art-Deco" style buildings.
TD04.JPG=Our camping area viewed from the Oxley lookout (panorama)
FSCN0168.JPG=Flooding on the roads near the Amberley RAAF base.
DSCN0128.JPG=At the Tamworth Town Hall - Graeme Connors excellent show
DSC_0019.JPG=Tamworth has many "Art-Deco" style buildings.
