New Cobar Gold Mine
It is worth the drive up to the Fort Bourke Lookout in Cobar, NSW just to see the colour of the rock face of the New Cobar Gold Mine. The town of Cobar stretches out in the distance. Continue reading New Cobar Gold Mine
Category: Point of Interest
An Often Overlooked Treasure
The Rusty Shed cafe in the port of Wyndham, WA is advertising Barra and Chips nite. So we find ourselves sitting under the gum trees on a large timber deck listening to a guy called Brad Martin play guitar and … Continue reading An Often Overlooked Treasure
Bell’s Milk Bar
The famous Bell’s Milk Bar in Patton Street, Broken Hill, NSW has been on the same site since the early 1900’s and hasn’t been altered since the 1950’s. They make their own cordials so they certainly have quality control over … Continue reading Bell’s Milk Bar
The Starting Stalls
We partake of the legendary brothel tour on Hay Street in the gold mining city of Kalgoorlie, WA. The stories told by the madam hold us all spellbound. It’s Fifty Shades of Grey +++. We chuckle afterwards when we notice that the EFTPOS dockets are titled C & G Mobile Mechanic. Well they do perform servicing, don’t they? Continue reading The Starting Stalls
Memorial to the Grafton Cub Scouts
Accidentally drowned 11/12/1943 This memorial overlooks the scene of probably the worst river tragedy on the Clarence River since Europeans arrived in 1838. Late on the afternoon of Saturday December 11th 1943, thirteen members of the 1st Grafton Cub Pack … Continue reading Memorial to the Grafton Cub Scouts
A Grander Grandstand Would be Hard to Find
We once visited tiny Toongabbie in Gippsland to see the railway station which we’d heard was a real beauty. Sadly the railway line is now a rail trail and the station no longer but a short punt kick away is … Continue reading A Grander Grandstand Would be Hard to Find
Broken Earth
Chambers of the Black Hand
In Lightning Ridge, NSW the Chambers of the Black Hand tour is as unique a tour as its name implies. It is in what they call a ‘walk in’ opal mine and we descend 80 or so steps to 40 … Continue reading Chambers of the Black Hand
Mt Roland
Often mistaken for Cradle Mountain, Mt Roland in north western Tasmania is an imposing sight. Moody, imposing and almost mystical when snowcapped in the winter it is a dominating feature of the surrounding farmland. Continue reading Mt Roland
Nice Buns!
We’re in Piper Street, Kyneton, Vic. It’s winter and 11 degrees here in the Macedon Ranges region. It is cold, wet and miserable and we stop for a warming coffee at Grist Artisan Bakery. Woody is soon grinning behind a big glazed fruit bun. He says that it is the best that he’s ever had and he’s an expert. The bakery is in an old wooden mill building with big solid beams. It feels rather …well, English. The ceiling is low and the floor uneven and patched. Leaving Woody to his bun I wander off to find the toilet and … Continue reading Nice Buns!
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