On the Road...Baradine to Cobar...

Taking the long way back after Scrub Stitchin'...the first stop was a good 2-3 minutes after leaving Camp Cypress...the Pillaga Forest Discovery Centre in Baradine...well, wouldn't want to overdo it straight out of the gate *LOL*...this fellow was found in the front garden...

...it was very interesting and well worth a visit...indigenous culture, fauna, flora, timber cutting, the forest holds a lot of stories...there was a small art display in another room so I had a look at that too...

Then it was time to actually get back on the road and head west...I came across some more locals in Coonamble...

 

and a painted tower...

The tower is circled by an indigenous design incorporating other local animals/birds as well as the emu...

Going via Warren and Nyngan I arrived at my destination of Cobar early enough, after checking in to the motel, to do some sightseeing...

the sign at the entrance to town coming in from the east...

The New Cobar Open Cut Gold Mine from Fort Bourke Lookout...

 

It was tricky to get a good photo because the sun was in setting and the Lookout of course faces west!...it is a very very long way down to that entrance into the mine...

 

After leaving the mine lookout I stopped at the Mining Heritage Park also at the east end coming in to town (opposite the Heritage Centre)...it is a lovely park with a memorial to miners who have lost their lives to accident or miners disease...

Miner Sculpture...

entrance to the Miners Memorial...each brick is inscribed with a name...

 

Inside the Memorial are information story boards which are very interesting and sad to read...also a large tag board with golden coloured tags - each one with the name and year of death of a miner who had lost his life working in the mine...the first one dated 1880 and the last 2017...yes, 2017, just five years ago, mining accidents still happen, it is a dangerous profession...

Across the road was this sculpture...

a stele monument to commemorate the discovery of copper...

 

Before leaving for the next leg I contributed to the Cobar economy with a visit to Cobar Quilt Shop...I really liked Cobar but it might be a good thing I don't live close by that shop!...

Then it was onwards for the next leg...Broken Hill...

Happy Stitching...