TUESDAY 22 - WEDNESDAY 23.03.2016: The Leylands are bound for the 2016 Nundle Go For Gold Chinese Easter Festival. It is the second largest annual festival in northern inland NSW and attracts 16,000 people over two days to a village with a population of 289 people. The annual festival honours the significant role of Chinese and European miners and storekeepers in the development of the Nundle and Hanging Rock townships. As per usual, we "planned" our departure time, but in reality left downtown LTP at 1.30pm - so improved our exit timeframe, not! Paid a visit to our local Millers haunt and then made our way to the rest area at Broke. On leaving Broke we discovered some 2kms out that coal mining is gradually encroaching on the village. So sad to see the landscape altering and as a result no major improvements being made to the area.
Stopped for lunch at the Commercial Hotel, Aberdeen and had a lovely meal, then photo shot the wildlife! Stayed the night at Burning Mountain, Wingen and have decided to leisurely make our way to Nundle tomorrow morning.
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