Central & Outback NSW 2021

Nisan 2021

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

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- 16 Nis 2021
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Yükseklik: 875 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales Orange Municipality Bletchington -33.276889, 149.08660333°16’37” S 149°5’12” E
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Orange
16 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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- 15 Nis 2021 12:39
- 🌙 25 °C
- Yükseklik: 57 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales The Hills Shire Kellyville Kellyville Park -33.714743, 150.9561633°42’53” S 150°57’22” E
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Siding Springs Observatory
15 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
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- 14 Nis 2021
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Yükseklik: 505 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales Warrumbungle Shire Coonabarabran David Bell Park -31.276821, 149.27443831°16’37” S 149°16’28” E
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Coonabarabran
14 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
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- 13 Nis 2021 16:00
- 🌙 24 °C
- Yükseklik: 135 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales Walgett Lightning Ridge Llanillo Bore No 2 -29.406712, 147.986629°24’24” S 147°59’12” E
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Green Car Door Tour
13 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Nebia Hill, Wild Orange Tree, Opal Tree, Nettleton’s First Shaft Lookout, Stone Labyrinth, Beer Can House.

Nebia Hill - Gravel pit that supplies the district, including Petrified Wood, Jasper, Quartz, Agates, Carnelian and Clear Topaz.

Wild Orange Tree - 25m root system. Some miners use them as surface indicators of where to dig.

Opal Tree - Tree covered in opal (hand crafted).

Make visiting Richard and the Opal Tree a must on the Green Car Door Tour! He’s a very quirky man with fascinating stories behind his Opal Tree and other creative pieces.

Nettleton’s First Shaft Lookout - Informative Monument.

Stone Labyrinth - Made by four people in six hours.

Beer Can House - Unique structure. You can sign the Guest Book in the fridge inside.Okumaya devam et
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- 13 Nis 2021 12:00
- 🌙 22 °C
- Yükseklik: 144 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales Walgett Lightning Ridge -29.429439, 147.97726129°25’46” S 147°58’38” E
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Blue & Red Car Door Tours
13 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
Today we completed the Blue and Red Car Door Tours.

First up - Blue Tour. We headed out through the opal mine fields, locally known as 'the suburbs', before stopping briefly to explore Bevan's Cactus Garden with over 2,500 cactus varieties and 48 Bougainvillea varieties. Interesting, but not really our thing.

Next up was the Walk-in Mine Tour. This was pretty cool and being self-guided meant we could move at our own pace.

Being one of the shorter Car Door Tours, we quickly moved on to the Red Door Tour. We passed the plaque sharing information on the first settlement in 1906 called Wallangulla or Old Town, which is where the first Opal Rush boomed. We then stopped to marvel at the Stone & Bottle House - an interestingly constructed private home made entirely of, would you believe, stones and bottles, and filled with collectables!

Just a bit further along the road we stopped to explore the Ridge Castle - a unique castle nestled in Lighting Ridge. It was in fact an AirB&B property but as with most things in Lightning Ridge, it wasn't your typical lodging.

Moving on, we noted some other interesting sights along the way including Sim’s Hill - the highest point in the district (170m above sea level), astronomers' monument - a very cool homemade observatory, and KFC Drive-thru (although it never seems to be open).

But the highlight of this tour was definitely Amigos Castle - a unique and fascinating private home. The castle was built by Vittorio Stefanato, also known as Amigo, who was born in Italy and moved to Australia in 1970. The castle is built with stones and planks, and Amigo has been expanding it since 1982. The castle sits atop dinosaur bones that are millions of years old - not officially catalogued but locally known as 'Amigosaurus'. The underground tunnels and secrets of the Castle were closed the day we were there as it turns out Amigo had been sentenced to at least 13 years and seven months in jail for murdering a local woman, near his castle in January 2020. He shot her point blank with a rifle after she asked him for money, and then hid her body in the bushland. He pleaded guilty to the murder in October 2021. I think I'm glad we missed his 'private' tour!Okumaya devam et
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- 12 Nis 2021
- 🌙 20 °C
- Yükseklik: 132 m
- Avustralya State of New South Wales Walgett -29.679649, 147.63133429°40’47” S 147°37’53” E
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Orange Car Door Tour
12 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Today we conquered the Orange Car Door Tour which took us an hour's drive west of town to the famous Grawin, Glengary and Sheepyard opal fields. If you thought Lightning Ridge was in the middle of nowhere, you haven't been to Grawin!

Unlike the native bush environment around Lightning Ridge, the landscape across this region is rugged, comparable to the surface of the moon, dusty and barren, just waiting to be unearthed. Here, most opals are discovered wedged between layers of opal bearing clay and stone, known as seam opals.

First stop - Club in the Scrub, a fantastically quirky and authentic Miners Sports Bar, complete with 'Beer & Bullsh*t' area. Who would believe it's an actual RSL club, and you’ve got to sign in!

Next up, the Glengarry Hilton. Apparently, the outback pub was built to satisfy the thirsty needs of those who came to try their luck on the ever-popular opal fields in the 1970s. With very low expectations we braved lunch from the shipping-container kitchen, only to be served up perhaps the most succulently delicious burgers ever - even if there's a high possibility the patties were mouse meat!

Moving on the boys indulged their noodling fever in the many piles of white dirt alongside buildings and the sides of roads. Unfortunately, the giant mullock heaps that have been known to present surprise pieces are now off-limits to the general public for safety reasons.

Last on the tourist trail was Sheepyard Inn (jokingly referred to as ‘the best baaaaa in the outback’) with its eclectic collection of historical memorabilia, including an old train carriage that came from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. And who could forget the impressive 'bra-tree'. I'll leave to the imagination as to whether I made a donation ;)

Finally, we stopped at the War Memorial, built by local miners, many of whom are Vietnam Veterans.

This was definitely a highlight and worth the day-trip for a glimpse of how Lightning Ridge itself probably would have been in the early days.Okumaya devam et
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- 11 Nis 2021
- 🌙 21 °C
- Yükseklik: 135 m
- Avustralya 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 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 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.Okumaya devam et
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- 10 Nis 2021
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Yükseklik: 144 m
- Avustralya 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 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ ☁️ 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 ☺️Okumaya devam et
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- 9 Nis 2021
- 🌙 32 °C
- Yükseklik: 188 m
- Avustralya State of Queensland Paroo Cunnamulla -28.06291, 145.69354228°3’46” S 145°41’37” E
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Cunnamulla QLD
9 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ 🌙 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.Okumaya devam et
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- 8 Nis 2021
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Yükseklik: 109 m
- Avustralya 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 Nisan 2021, Avustralya ⋅ ☁️ 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.Okumaya devam et
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