Outback NSW

septembre - octobre 2019

Off on a road trip with our good friends, Alan and Rosie. Visiting outback NSW towns - heading to Broken Hill. Looking at historical and cultural points of interest to enhance Al's history classes! En savoir plus

17empreintes
1pays
7jours
118photos
0vidéos
2,6kkilomètres

S’abonner Calendrier Partager Liste de choses à faire

Date ascendante

Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 28 sept. 2019 à 02:00
- 🌙 8 °C
- Altitude: 305 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cowra -33.82333, 148.68533°49’24” S 148°41’6” E
Jour 1
Cowra - Japanese Garden
28 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
Cowra is a lovely outback NSW town. Its famous for the Japanese Prisoner of War camp where prisoners were held during WW2. There was an uprising and breakout from the camp and prisoners escaped. Over 1000 escaped, 234 Japanese were shot during the breakout. 4 Australian soldiers were killed.
There is a Japanese War cemetery and memorial, as well as a fabulous Japanese Garden.
We were lucky enough to be there on the day of the Cherry Blossom Festival and saw cherry trees in blossom!En savoir plus
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 28 sept. 2019 à 04:00
- 🌙 6 °C
- Altitude: 293 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cowra Brougham Park -33.83391, 148.6881133°50’2” S 148°41’17” E
Jour 1
Cowra Prisoner of War Camp
28 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ 🌙 6 °C
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 29 sept. 2019 à 10:00
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 268 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cabonne Eugowra -33.42667, 148.3683333°25’36” S 148°22’6” E
Jour 2
Euwogra
29 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Small town out of Cowra where they have painted murals on the buildings to depict the town's history. Bushranger territory!
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 29 sept. 2019 à 13:00
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 379 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Parkes -32.99833, 148.2633332°59’54” S 148°15’48” E
Jour 2
Parkes Radio Telescope
29 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Parkes is a bigger outback town. Its famous for its radio telescope which was built in 1961 and was at the time the biggest in the world. CSIRO work with NASA on space projects.
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 29 sept. 2019 à 15:00
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 375 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cabonne North Gooloogong Belubula River -33.53891, 148.4758133°32’20” S 148°28’33” E
Jour 2
Peak Hill Gold Mine
29 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
An open cut Gold Mine operational until 2000. Interesting!
Voir la traduction
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 29 sept. 2019 à 16:00
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 171 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Bogan Nyngan Rotary Park -31.55833, 147.1816731°33’30” S 147°10’54” E
1
Jour 2
Nyngan
29 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Finished the day at Nyngan on the Bogan River. Nice camping ground on the river. Not much water, but others years you can water ski there.
Voir la traduction
Voyageur Loving the pics Jo 💞
01/10/2019Répondre
1 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 30 sept. 2019 à 11:00
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 242 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cobar -31.49833, 145.84531°29’54” S 145°50’42” E
Jour 3
Cobar
30 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Passed through Cobar - a copper mining town. Found a lovely cafe gift shop and had morning tea under an apricot tree.
Voir la traduction
1 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 30 sept. 2019 à 11:00
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 166 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Cobar -31.58667, 144.87531°35’12” S 144°52’30” E
Jour 3
On the Road to Broken Hill
30 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Straight roads. Lots of wild flowers.
1 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 30 sept. 2019 à 20:00
- 🌙 15 °C
- Altitude: 298 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Broken Hill -31.96, 141.4633331°57’36” S 141°27’48” E
Jour 3
The Palace Hotel - Broken Hill
30 septembre 2019, Australie ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
The Palace Hotel - iconic hotel in the main Street of Broken Hill. It was part of the set for filming "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and it's painted up walls and ceilings! There is an annual festival "Broken Heel" which we just missed.En savoir plus
Voir la traduction
0 j’aime
Voyageur Outback NSW
- Afficher le voyage
- Ajouter à ma liste de choses à faireSupprimer de ma liste de choses à faire
- Partager
- 1 oct. 2019 à 13:00
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 267 m
- Australie State of New South Wales Broken Hill Municipality -31.89796, 141.2791131°53’53” S 141°16’45” E
Jour 4
Daydream Silver Mine - Broken Hill
1 octobre 2019, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Old Silver mine in Silverton area of Broken Hill. Went on an underground tour. Glad I didn't live here then and my son's had to work here. Dangerous hard work with high mortality rate for accidents and lung disease.En savoir plus
Voir la traduction
0 j’aime

En charger plus