OTR: Day 2 … Quirindi

When we first set out to go to Gunnedah instead of Tamworth, the plan was to do a 95-mile in-out detour along the same road.

But then we spoke to the volunteer at the Gunnedah Visitor Center and we ended up jiggling our route to head south through the Liverpool Plans to Quirindi to see what she described as the “pre-eminent silo art.”

Peter Ryan’s mural on the GrainCorp silos tells the story of Quirindi … its past, present, and future … starting with dreamtime stories of the tree goanna, and the grey and the blue kangaroos … and continuing with the history of farming, including working dogs, crops, and the railway.

The drive to Quirindi through pastoral lands was scenic and serene … greener than we expected it to be. Unfortunately, the narrow road had no pull-outs for us to stop and take photos. Nonetheless, the silo art we found in Quirindi, which in Kamilaroi translates as “Nest in the Hills,” was most definitely worth the detour.Read more