We all said good bye and we headed to Mount Hope. What can I say about this town? I'm not even sure whether it is a town or a locality. There is a community Hall with a sculpture of a cow made from recycled materials, a truck stop and the Royal Hotel, the sad part about the Pub is it doesn't open on a Monday, guess what day we were there. This stop was just an overnight stay but the camp ground behind the pub was huge, you could easily fit 80 to 100 vans in.
From Mount Hope we hit the road and wound up at Cobar, we checked out a free camp just out of town, but the burnt out wrecked car and the tire tracks surrounding it turned us off. We explored the town and found some beautiful buildings dating back to the 1870's.
In 1870 three tank sinkers, Charles Campbell, Thomas Hartman and George Gibb, accompanied by two Aboriginal guides Boney and Frank, were travelling from Bourke to Condobolin. They camped at "Kubbur Water hole" near Cobar, they noticed the unusual colour of the water,The men took ore samples to the Gilguuna Pub. The publicans wife Mrs Kruge had been previously employed in sorting ore at copper mines in Cornwell in the UK and she identified the samples as rich copper ore.
Many relics from the past can be seen at the Miners Heritage Park, with the Stamper Battery, Rick the Miner Statue and the 15 metre high Poppet-head Winder from the New Cobar Mine, used to lower the miners into the mine and bring ore to the surface.
We also took the road up to Fort Bourke Lookout to see the huge open cut mine, they have put in a fully caged viewing platform to see the spectacular vista of the mine.
On our way out of Cobar to see if we could find some where to stop for the night, we drove past a new farm stay not far out of town. After doing a U-turn we headed back to find the property was called Glen Hope and was a free camp, the owner drops of wood if you wish to have a camp fire.Great spot to camp and we would call in again if we were in the area.
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From Mount Hope we hit the road and wound up at Cobar, we checked out a free camp just out of town, but the burnt out wrecked car and the tire tracks surrounding it turned us off. We explored the town and found some beautiful buildings dating back to the 1870's.
In 1870 three tank sinkers, Charles Campbell, Thomas Hartman and George Gibb, accompanied by two Aboriginal guides Boney and Frank, were travelling from Bourke to Condobolin. They camped at "Kubbur Water hole" near Cobar, they noticed the unusual colour of the water,The men took ore samples to the Gilguuna Pub. The publicans wife Mrs Kruge had been previously employed in sorting ore at copper mines in Cornwell in the UK and she identified the samples as rich copper ore.
Many relics from the past can be seen at the Miners Heritage Park, with the Stamper Battery, Rick the Miner Statue and the 15 metre high Poppet-head Winder from the New Cobar Mine, used to lower the miners into the mine and bring ore to the surface.
We also took the road up to Fort Bourke Lookout to see the huge open cut mine, they have put in a fully caged viewing platform to see the spectacular vista of the mine.
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| The white near the tunnel is a landcruser |
On our way out of Cobar to see if we could find some where to stop for the night, we drove past a new farm stay not far out of town. After doing a U-turn we headed back to find the property was called Glen Hope and was a free camp, the owner drops of wood if you wish to have a camp fire.Great spot to camp and we would call in again if we were in the area.
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