Hunter Valley and down to Sydney

I had been told the hunter valley was worth a visit, this is where a large chunk of Australian wine comes from and if your a wine buff (which I'm not is well worth a visit). However as usual as headed up the valley the rain came in hard. Visibility was down to about 100yds and there was only one camp site in the area, so I had a drive around first and came across a micro- brewery come pub/bistro/hotel. I went into the brewery part but there was already a tour on and the next was not till late in the afternoon so I looked in the pub area to buy some bottles of their beer; A black lager and an IPA but at $15 a bottle was a little steep. With the rain still coming down I decided to move on and drove on down to Sydney. On the way out of the Hunter Valley, I stopped at a roadside cafe/fuel station for a coffee. Round the back was a place called Kulnara Sculptures and the chap there showed me some of the things he had made – all from scrap, His current seller were 'Ned Kelly' mail boxes made from welding two old gas bottles together and then adding arms and a gun etc. He had a huge dining table and chairs that had been made from recovered steel and wood from a ship and port barrels.
Time to move on; I found a campsite on the road atlas and headed for it. It was after 6 when I eventually arrived at the site and had to call the site owner as the office had closed but I got a space a grassed area off to the site of the site, which was mostly semi-permanent residents, but it did have good clean facilities and a big camp kitchen.