Go west young man!

Last week I posted a blip looking east at a winding train. Today's post is looking north west towards the top of the Hunter Valley. Muswellbrook is 110km from the sea, if you had this view 250 million years ago, you would need to have been in a boat. In those days the sea stretched from the coast for 275+km towards the interior of Australia. Fossils of trilobites and other pre historic sea creatures found near a town called Gunnedah are a conclusive. Then came the ice age and the valley in the blip formed a glacier which helped to sculpt the valley as we see it today. In between that event and today tectonic plate shift has lifted our town up 165m, Gunnedah 273m and the Great Dividing Range in the distance up 673m. So the Aboriginals have been here for a few thousand years and white population building roads, bridges and houses. You now have a short history of this part of the world. Temp today is 22deg dropping to 6deg this evening. Hope you have a fine day in your part of the world.