The Ten Dollar Note Town: Wellington to Gulgong

September 29, 2014

Wellington sits beside the sizeable Macquarie River. Rivers with water in them are relatively rare in inland Australia so I made an effort to backtrack a kilometre or two for early morning photos.

From the Wellington on the Macquarie we turned off the Mitchell Highway and headed north easterly into slightly more verdant countryside.

Today was a relatively short ride, so we reached Gulgong with ample time to do some touristing and shop around for more patches and tubes.

Gulgong exemplifies the pitfalls of a tourism strategy based on currency images. When Australia first moved to decimal currency, it used old fashioned paper notes like the ones the U.S, still uses. The $10 note featured scenes from Gulgong and the famous Australian poet Henry Lawson who is linked to the area.

Note technology moved on to the new polymer currency note technology invented in Australia and now being used by countries not wanting their notes to be counterfeited. The changeover ended Gulgong's reputation as the Town on the Ten Dollar Note.

Nicely treed property driveway near Wellington

Looking back to Wellington and the range beyond the Bell River. Limestone country.

Roadside gate sign...good news for anyone looking for Tepee Paint Horses.

Downtown Goolma. The pub was closed so we had a picnic on the verandah.

Roadside map at Goolma. From Wellington to Goolma to Gulgong is today's ride. Tomorrow will be to Ulan to Turill to Cassilis and onto Merriwa.

Woops...off the road and through the fence of a horse stud farm

Harking back to the good old days before plastic banknotes

Upstairs and downstairs verandahs in Gulgong

Today's ride: 73 km (45 miles)
Total: 427 km (265 miles)

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