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| Chaffey at sunset |
Readers of my blogs from previous trips may recall that we
have stayed at Chaffey Dam 45kms outside of Tamworth several times. A great
peaceful spot on the dam with toilets, hot showers, dump point and usually fish.
Unfortunately despite our
best efforts the fish didn’t want to come out and play this visit (a first for
Chaffey Dam for us). Even got up an hour before dawn one day to get the early
bite but an hour of freezing still didn’t produce any fish!
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| Our camp at the top |
The whole area is very dry at the moment with not much green
to be seen anywhere so hopefully they will get some good rain (after we
leave!!). The weather when we stayed was near perfect with no wind and minimums
of 0C and maximums around 21C. Great for
a fire at night and donning shorts during the day.
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| Morning chat with Peter the caretaker |
We normally camp near the dam so we can leave the tinny in
the water but the lower flats had been underwater a year or so ago and dry and
dusty so we decided to glamp it and camp close to the toilet and shower area
(in hindsight a good decision noting the poor fishing results).
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| No log too big for a Stihl! |
A few notes for travellers:-
- Prices have now gone up to $5/person per night (used to be $5/vehicle)
- The hot showers are $1/shower by donation
- There is no drinking water at Chaffey Dam but lots of shower water from taps supplying dam water. There is beaut drinking water available at Nundle from a tap at the public toilet block just on the outskirts of town.
- Say hello to Peter the cleaner/caretaker - he's been looking after this place for 7 years - 7 days a week and doing a great job!
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| The girls chilling out |
It’s been a while since we have stopped anywhere longer than
a week so the break at Chaffey was just what we needed to catch up with reading
and Linda even let me win one game of Yahtzee!!
Made a short video – link is HERE
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