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by **birddog114** on Mon May 29, 2006 10:11 am

Mudgee members,
I know we have few of you on board, if you're in the area of Mudgee for the long QB weekend, pls. PM me.
Would like to meet you all.

by **huynhie** on Mon May 29, 2006 10:34 am

bring some cash as there are some bargains coming your way :lol:

by **Raskill** on Mon May 29, 2006 10:37 am

Birdy, Bathurst is only an hour and a bit to the south, but I'm afraid my weekends, weekdays, days and nights are filled for the next little while. :lol:

Enjoy the wine though....

by **birddog114** on Mon May 29, 2006 10:39 am

Raskill wrote:Birdy, Bathurst is only an hour and a bit to the south, but I'm afraid my weekends, weekdays, days and nights are filled for the next little while.

Enjoy the wine though....

That what my thoughts too, might take off to Bathurst to visit Nigel and you if possible.

by **birddog114** on Mon May 29, 2006 10:41 am

huynhie wrote:bring some cash as there are some bargains coming your way

Yeah! why not?

Eg: 4Gb card for 100 bucks? who want them? :lol:

Go to Mudgee and grab them :lol:

by **belle** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:39 pm

What a shame I'm right in the middle of exams at uni, I could have given everyone a tour of my lovely home town!

by **birddog114** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:44 pm

belle wrote:What a shame I'm right in the middle of exams at uni, I could have given everyone a tour of my lovely home town!

Back to Mudgee and tag along with us, we will look after the exams for you :lol:

by **huynhie** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:55 pm

birddog114 wrote:
belle wrote:What a shame I'm right in the middle of exams at uni, I could have given everyone a tour of my lovely home town!

Back to Mudgee and tag along with us, we will look after the exams for you

Yeah Thanh will post the exam papers in the "bargains" section soon.

by **radar** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:11 pm

Belle,

belle wrote:I could have given everyone a tour of my lovely home town!

Any must see/photograph spots we should know of? Good places for sunset or sunrises?

cheers,

André

by **Nnnnsic** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:01 pm

birddog114 wrote:Eg: 4Gb card for 100 bucks? who want them?

Me! Me! Me! :lol:

by **huynhie** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:48 pm

I just checked the BOM website.

Statistics for the first 6 days of June 2006
Min Max
Mean -2.9 15.6
Lowest -5.0 13.7
Highest 0.2 16.8

by **stubbsy** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:19 pm

Went out today and bought some wind stopper stretch gloves (very nice but not cheap - based on a recommendation by Daniel_R) and an overjacket and a beanie. I'm ready for anything except summer :wink:

Edit: Fixed hyperlink

by **belle** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:25 pm

Haha! Excellent, I guess you could all do my photography assignment too!

I'll be there the next weekend if anyone decides to run away and stay in Mudgee.

Here are some interesting places to shoot off the top of my head (I'll add more later as I think of them, it's been a while!):

+Mudgee is supposedly beautiful in an Autumny/Wintery way at the moment, lots of oranges and greys.
+There are hundreds of wineries around and most are quite lovely, I'll let you guys discover them for yourself the hard way. Many good rural vineyard scenes etc. Lots of kangaroos too, haha.
+ The churches and historic buildings in the main street are quite nice in daylight and nightlight, and we can't forget the clock tower!
+Lawson Park is a nice park to visit, the Cudgegong River flows through.
+ You will probably see my artist dad driving around in an absolutely insane brightly coloured van, if you see him stop for a chat and he'll be more than happy to let you take photos!

Places to drive to:

+I think the Henry Lawson festival is on this weekend at Gulgong, which is a quaint little town close to Mudgee.
+ Windamere Dam is around 25km from Mudgee and is quite pretty and you'll pass it on the way to Mudgee from Sydney.
+ Goulbourn River National Park is lovely but a bit of a drive (50km) and is great if you want to bushwalk, it contains "Hands on the Rock' (an aboriginal site) and "The Drip". It's probably not very nice in winter though, more of a summer adventure.

I could go on for hours but I think you will have fun discovering Mudgee for yourself, just make sure you bring home some good wine!

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

EDIT: Yes it will be very cold in Mudgee, but at least it won't be as rainy as Sydney at the moment! (fingers crossed)

Belle

by **radar** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:29 pm

Peter,

you have the "h" missing on your gloves link.

Currently, weather prediction for Sat and Sun is rain, 85% chance on Sat and 90% chance on Sunday. There may be a lot more wine tasting :-)

A link for Mudgee weather:
http://www.abc.net.au/centralwest/weather/

Got my Canadian gear ready.

André

by **radar** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:32 pm

Thanks for that Belle,

gives us plenty to do.

I'm sure you'll feel homesick when you start seeing photos posted on the forums next week :wink:

Cheers,

André

by **stubbsy** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:50 pm

Thanks Belle

Yes, Henry Lawson Featival is on this weekend and looks interesting. Weather permitting I'm hoping we get to Dunn's Swamp too which comes highly recommended by both a fellow forum member AND the young lady who sold me my new cold/wet weather gear - she just happened to hail from Mudgee herself!

Of course if it's extra cold we could just sleep in. I'm sure I could force myself and maybe even Leigh could manage it :wink:

by **belle** on Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:30 am

stubbsy wrote:Thanks Belle

Yes, Henry Lawson Featival is on this weekend and looks interesting. Weather permitting I'm hoping we get to Dunn's Swamp too which comes highly recommended by both a fellow forum member AND the young lady who sold me my new cold/wet weather gear - she just happened to hail from Mudgee herself!

YES! I forgot Dunn's Swamp, that's a lovely area.
Can you remember the lady's name? I probably know her. Ahh, small town fun.

by **birddog114** on Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:52 am

Andre + Peter,
If the weather is not good (rain)
We will haul few good dozen red back to the motel and drink them all, and it's another method of warming up.

belle,
You come back to Mudgee and study for your exams while we're in the region. :lol:

by **Raskill** on Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:59 pm

As luck would have it I am working on the sunday/monday despite being on paternity leave. Go figure.

There are some great areas surrounding Mudgee, try to get to Hill End for some sunsets, now that is a great village for photos. If you try to go, mind the kangeroos! Incidentally, it aint a short drive.

Would have really liked to have got up to meet a few of you. I'm going to make it to a meet this year if it kills me (or my wife does).

by **birddog114** on Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:05 pm

Raskill wrote:There are some great areas surrounding Mudgee, try to get to Hill End for some sunsets, now that is a great village for photos. If you try to go, mind the kangeroos! Incidentally, it aint a short drive.

My Nissan Patrol with a bullbar, we might find some good kangaroo steak for the nights.

And its tail for the soup.
:lol: