hunter valley is about 100 miles north of sydney a wine growing and coal mining region on the coast i live in newcastle it used to be a steelmill town now that has gone it is the biggest coal loading terminal in southern hemisphere exporting over 200 million tons per year they are digging big holes up the valley all open cut mining you may of went to port stephens just a little north of newcastle nice beaches all up the coast and afew chevvys