Today we travelled to Mudgee, but first we went to check out the Memorial to Banjo Patterson. There was a memorial park near the tourist info office in town, which had a small amout of info and recordings of parts of his poem. Then we went to check out the small parklands set aside near where his house was. For a very famous Australian, Orange does not seem to have made much of this, maybe it is because he was just born here and spent most of his life in Sydney.

The information centre told us you could pick fresh peaches at one of the local farms, but when we drove out there we found a very dodgy place, so decided best just to drive on.

 This little detour did add some scenic driving to our drive north. We drove up the Mitchell Highway up through Wellington, and then across, not the normal way to travel across. Arrived Mudgee, to a nice warm evening, so the kids even managed a swim.