ONE of my favourite spots is not far from home, just a couple of hours west of Coffs Harbour, heading into the heart of the New England region. It’s a place where early explorers deemed the land perfect for pastoralism, and bushrangers roamed. Today the whole area is a mix of tourist drives, farmlands and boutique villages.
The New England region covers an area from Newcastle in the south up to the Queensland border on the top of the Great Dividing Range. Across the west side the farmland is very much similar to the UK, with wet winters with blizzard conditions and pretty warm summers. To the east where the Great Divide drops to the coast there are some cool forest regions with a diverse range of plants and animals. The tourist trade flocks to these areas for the multitude of wineries, coffee emporiums, boutique stays, natural wonders and festivals.
Now while there’s not really a lot of challenging four-wheel driving
