Moree, NSW 2400. Friday 22nd December 2006.

This morning we headed out to Trawalla Pecan Farm. The farm is the largest pecan farm in the southern hemisphere having some 75,000 pecan trees. The farm was intially established by an American entrepreneur with the aim of providing year round pecans i.e. production in the off-season to meet demand in the northern hemisphere.

From here we made our way to Slaughterhouse Creek where local legend has it that a large group of Aborigines were killed in a Bushwack initiated by stockmen clearing the area for farming. However, the brutal act was considered to be a response to Aboriginal attacks on settlers. The horror of the story though lies in the fact that most of the Aboriginals killed were women and children thus depleting the good relations that existed between the Aboriginal people and the settlers.

We headed off to Warialda via Gravesend to visit Cranky Rock Nature Reserve. The legend here is that a "cranky" Chinese man murdered a Warialda woman, Mrs Eliza Golthorpe, attacking her on Christmas Eve 1874 with her death occurring on December 29th. He was chased by police and evaded capture by leaping to his death from the high rocks forever to be known as Cranky.

Tom and I had a great time climbing the rocks that sit above Reedy Creek before we headed back into Warialda, meaning place of wild honey in Aboriginal, to eat at the Civic Cafe.

Back in the direction of Moree, our next stop will be Pallamallawa to take in the cotton fields here in Big Sky country. It is stunning today as I look upon the candy floss clouds and the clearest expanse of blue sky I think I have ever seen.

I learned today that one bale of cotton will produce 215 pairs of jeans or 1217 t-shirts or 2104 pairs of boxer shorts or 21960 handkerchiefs or give you 681000 cotton wool balls...just examples.

At Tareelaroi Weir we saw the huge Ibis bird both at rest and in flight, before heading home to relax and enjoy my first ever Tim Tam.

After a wonderful Thai meal it was time for the big night out at The Moree Golf Club with Tom and Jack.