Tuesday 2nd September.
Moving further southward we encountered a fair amount of rain in our travelling today. If we thought we have gone as high as we could yesterday we were to be proved wrong. We stopped briefly in Armidale (elevation 980 metres) on the Northern Tablelands where the biting winds drove us into the warmth of several shopping centres purely to escape the cold. During the afternoon as we progressed towards Tamworth we ran into several very heavy sleet storms making visibility extremely difficult, but due to the nature of the terrain we were unable to pull over and let the storm pass us by. Speed was down to about 45 km/h with windscreen wipers going flat chat.
Our destination for this afternoon was Hanging Rock, ( not to be confused with Hanging Rock, a locality in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales).
Hanging Rock is a gold mining village and also rock face on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales. This former gold mining town is situated about 10 km south east of Nundle. The village is part of the Tamworth Regional Council district. Hanging Rock’s elevation is about 1100 m. Due to the high altitude of the village, Hanging Rock and the surrounding mountains can occasionally receive a snow fall on the coldest of winter days. Hanging Rock had a population of 195 people.
Just east from Hanging Rock, Sheba Dams (No 1 and 2) were built by hand in 1888 to store water for sluicing gold. Now they are just a pretty spot to picnic, camp, and fish for trout.
This was our planned camp area at an elevation of 1,150 metres.
Light rain continued to fall throughout the late afternoon and evening limiting our ability to throw a fishing line in. The access road was quite wet and slushy but firm enough not to be of concern should the rain continue throughout the night.
During the night we heard what we thought to be the pitter patter of light rain.
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