2017 - Tour Down Under: Day 4: Fri 6 Jan - Tamworth to Dubbo, 346km

Fine, sunny and warm

Another sleep in - 6:45am!! Just as we were about to pull out, Gunther found a problem with his electronic braking system. There is always something, isn't there? Our indicator yesterday, Fischer's brakes today. We eventually got away at 9:05am and headed for Gunnedah. The road was a little lumpy in places, but not too bad overall. We arrived at Pensioners Hill Reserve at 10:20am, just in time for mornos. Pensioners Hill Reserve is where the Rotary Club of Gunnedah West, with the assistance of BHP Billiton, erected a number of significant heritage sculptures which show some aspects of Gunnedah's rich cultural heritage. Whilst not as plentiful as the sculpture park outside Broken Hill, they were still pleasant to look at.

At Gunnedah, we decided we would head off the main road to Dunedoo. So, we turned left at Mullaley onto a smaller road which was a little lumpier with little or no verge in some parts. The scenery was more picturesque though, with fields of green contrasted by wheat that was due to be harvested or already harvested. There were also a few small hills punctuating the skyline. We arrived in Dunedoo about 1:15pm, for lunch. We had parked opposite the Dunedoo Pie Shop so decided we would give that a go. Gunther had a sausage roll and the rest of us had a “plain meat pie”. We sat under a shelter with a lovely breeze - lucky as it was about 32 degC. There were some really good comments on WikiCamps about the vanilla slices at the Dunedoo Bakery so we took a short walk down the street only to find the bakery closed until 16 Jan. Oh well, we probably didn't need it after our larger than normal dinner last night.

The road from Dunedoo to Dubbo was particularly lumpy the whole way, but was nice and wide. We had a little laugh as there was one white car driven by a P-plater who overtook us as at a fair rate and only just made it back into our lane to avoid a collision with oncoming traffic. About 10km up the road, there was the same white car with a police car behind him and a very tall policeman perhaps booking him, or giving him a very stern talking-to. Although the truckies follow quite closely they are all very careful when passing, very patient.

We refuelled before checking in to the Dubbo City Holiday Park, site #95; G&Y are #96. After setting up we had a late afternoon siesta, after which we researched the zoo and other outings in Dubbo. Wendy prepared the dinner whilst Greg went for a short ride to find the cycle path we need to take to the zoo tomorrow. Dinner was late due to Gunther trying to find the fault with his ESC; he eventually found a blown fuse which he hopes is the issue - we will know tomorrow when we get a new one.