Central & Outback NSW 2021

april 2021

Making memories one road trip at a time - Cowra, Parkes, Bourke, Lightning Ridge & Coonabarabran (Warrumbungles NP) Meer informatie

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- 4 apr 2021 09:00
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Hoogte: 133 m
- Australië State of New South Wales The Hills Shire Rogans Hill Greenup Park -33.738529, 151.00986933°44’19” S 151°0’36” E
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Ready to Roll
4 april 2021, Australië ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
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- 4 apr 2021
- 🌙 27 °C
- Hoogte: 306 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Cowra -33.832226, 148.69059833°49’56” S 148°41’26” E
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Cowra
4 april 2021, Australië ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
On a the road again, escaping Covid riddled Sydney for the clean fresh air of Central and Outback NSW.

We’ve headed out over the Blue Mountains, detouring to complete a lap of Mount Panorama (caravan in tow)!

We’re staying at the Cowra Caravan Park where we have a lovely big site along the banks of the Lachlan River.Meer informatie
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- 5 apr 2021
- 🌙 29 °C
- Hoogte: 291 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Cowra -33.846172, 148.67407233°50’46” S 148°40’27” E
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Japanese Gardens & POW Camp
5 april 2021, Australië ⋅ 🌙 29 °C
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- 6 apr 2021 12:01
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Hoogte: 351 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Parkes -33.136978, 148.1742433°8’13” S 148°10’27” E
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Parkes
6 april 2021, Australië ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
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- 6 apr 2021 14:00
- 🌙 28 °C
- Hoogte: 183 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Lachlan Condobolin -33.088394, 147.14643933°5’18” S 147°8’47” E
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Condobolin
6 april 2021, Australië ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
After setting up camp in Parkes, we made the hour or so long trip to check out Condobolin’s Utes in the Paddock - a unique and quirky display of Australian art on the iconic Holden Ute. There are currently nearly 20 Utes on display painted by some of the best outback artists.

The story goes... While travelling Route 66 on a trip across the United States, Graham Pickles and his wife Jana were drawn to an unusually popular attraction named “Cadillac Ranch”, located in west Texas near Amarillo. Intrigued by the ranch’s popularity, the 'Utes in the Paddock' concept grew from a whimsical ‘what if’ seed... and in August 2007 the Utes team began working on the project. Utes were donated by residents from the area who caught the ‘utes bug’ after learning that many of Australia’s most gifted outback artists were donating their time and talent to create this unique tribute to life in the bush.Meer informatie
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- 7 apr 2021
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Hoogte: 372 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Parkes -32.998068, 148.26304732°59’53” S 148°15’47” E
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The Dish
7 april 2021, Australië ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
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- 8 apr 2021
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Hoogte: 109 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Bourke Darling River -30.079807, 145.93862930°4’47” S 145°56’19” E
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Bourke
8 april 2021, Australië ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We’ve made it to Bourke and I can officially now tick off two bucket list items:
*The longest straight road in NSW
*Being able to say I’ve been out ‘Back-O’Bourke’.

We’re staying at Kidman’s Camp on the northern side of town and we’re very pleased with this selection. It’s like a little oasis in the middle of nowhere and thankfully punching well above its weight for the area.

We explored around town and down my the river with its huge multi- story wharf - a hangover from when the river was the main form of transportation and trade.

The mighty Darling River was in flood and we nervously watched on as some local kids backflipped from the top deck into the very swiftly flowing water.Meer informatie
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- 9 apr 2021
- 🌙 32 °C
- Hoogte: 188 m
- Australië State of Queensland Paroo Cunnamulla -28.06291, 145.69354228°3’46” S 145°41’37” E
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Cunnamulla QLD
9 april 2021, Australië ⋅ 🌙 32 °C
Given the direct route from Bourke to Lightning Ridge is closed at Brewarrina/Walgett due to flooding, we decided the best way around would be via Cunnumulla. And that's how we find ourselves in Outback Queensland!

It does mean we've departed Bourke a day ahead of schedule, but that's no great loss. Sadly the last paddle boat ride was the day before we arrived. Today the river is too high and the boat won’t fit under the power lines.

I think we are all comfortable we've seen enough of Bourke!

I have to say there's not much at Cunnumulla, except of course the great Cunnumulla Fella - the fictional stockman immortalised in song by Slim Dusty, whose eponymous statue now sitting proudly in the town centre.

We set up in the Cunnumulla Tourist Park and after scraping the copious number of splatted bugs off the front of the car and caravan, retreated for a quiet night.Meer informatie
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- 10 apr 2021
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Hoogte: 144 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Walgett Lightning Ridge -29.428848, 147.98127729°25’44” S 147°58’53” E
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Lightning Ridge
10 april 2021, Australië ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
We came the long way, but we've made it to Lightning Ridge!

We're staying the Opal Caravan Park, just 200m from the hot bore baths, and it's fabulous. We have a huge drive through site with our own ensuite.

'The Ridge' is unlike anywhere else. As a town, it is a bizarre and compelling combination of rural sophistication vs wildly eccentric. On one hand, the main street is sealed, curbed and guttered and has rows of regular shops - and evidently there is a lot of money around.

On the other hand, you gasp at the house made from bottles and the rough cement 'castle' of the Astronomer's Monument, surrounded by a moonscape of mullock heaps under which literally hundreds of obsessed miners search and dig for the black opals which have made the town famous.

We love all the quirkiness that Lightning Ridge has to offer. Everywhere you look there's a little joke or dig at conformity to be found if you open your eyes.

But perhaps the best part of the Lightning Ridge experience for me is sous-viding ourselves in the famous hot pool. The Lightning Ridge Bore Baths, which are the result of an artesian bore sunk by local graziers in the 1960s, provide a permanent supply of warm (more accurately described as HOT) mineralised waters bubbling up from 900m below the surface.

It is definitely a special experience to sit in the hot pool, especially on a cool April night, and gaze up at the vast outback skies. I've never been so completely relaxed, nor slept better. I could do this every night ☺️Meer informatie
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- 11 apr 2021
- 🌙 21 °C
- Hoogte: 135 m
- Australië State of New South Wales Walgett Lightning Ridge Spider Brown Oval -29.420181, 147.97395329°25’13” S 147°58’26” E
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Yellow Car Door Tour
11 april 2021, Australië ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Today we followed the Yellow Car Door Tour out towards …

We checked out the Big Opal Mine and jewellery store. Here we braved the self-guided mine tour which was interesting but left a lot to be desired in terms of safety - the rusty spiral staircase down was just the start!

We also check out Lunatic Lookout

Miners Cottages - Made of stone from an earlier era.

Chambers of the Black Hand - Fantastic carvings on the walls of an old mine. Many people reckon this is the BEST tour in Lightning Ridge!

Australian Opal Centre (AOC) - 2-storey-in-the-ground building

Abandoned Mine Shafts - See them spotted around everywhere with fences around them.

Black Opal Heritage Shed - Associated with the AOC

Graveyard of Rusty Treasures - An assortment of vintage trucks and cars

Lunatic Lookout - Check out the surrounding sights and air vents that go down to the mines. Site of the world’s largest black opal nobody ever found, called “Halley’s Comet”.

Movie Set - The corrugated iron church was purpose-built for the movie The Goddess of 1967, which was filmed in 2000.

Stanley the Emu - At the Castlereagh Highway, turn left until you see 18 m tall “Stanley the Emu,” constructed out of recycled materials.Meer informatie
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