On top of Mount Tilga

In Condobolin this is the only hill you can walk up, here I am at the top of Mount Tilga. It was topped by granite boulders and had a fantastic view.

Mount Tilga

The Cobar Road
The road up to Mount Tilga, when you turn left at the sign
The view from the summit
Geographical survey marker for the Centre of NSW

Trip to Forbes

The Forbes Literary Institute - The Library built in 1929, some nice classical features.
The Forbes Court House, 1880, a beautiful Victorian building.
The Vandenberg Hotel, Forbes with its iron lace verandah, does every country town have one of these. Oh for the days of the gold rush, and the high wool prices and big wheat crops.
St Johns Church, Forbes. Built from sandstone and limestone. Neo gothic architecture, a beaut small cathedral.

Home for the weekend

Martha's has great flowers,
yummy hot chocolates

and toasty banana bread

I drove 100km to Parkes airport from Condobolin and caught the Rex flight to Sydney. I watched Tom play soccer and on Sunday we went out for breakfast.

Tom's 11th Birthday

Happy 11th Birthday Tom,

we wish you many many more.

xxxx

More photos of Condobolin Moments

This is the Aboriginal painting with a superb parrot on the basket ball courts.
Condobolin Simpsons.
A war trophy.

Local frog rescued from the staff common room by Mel
I took Year 9 on a site study of the local War Memorial
It is built in an architectural gate at the corner of the park on the Forbes Rd.
I discovered Condobolin Haywards.

Condobolin Rocks!

Last weekend I travelled out to Lake Cargellico. It takes one hour to get there by car from Condo on the Mitchell Highway. The drive takes you past paddocks of red soil that have been recently sown in hope of the rain coming. When you arrive at Lake the road stops while you cross the weir over a dam and into the town. The lake is a long vista of light blue shimmering water to the horizon populated by water birds.
I walked along the heritage trail from the Ochre Pits and Saw Pit to Dead Man's Point and the Aboriginal midden. The lake was a major inland attraction for people and animals and birds heading out through the central west.
I left my camera at home this day. So you will just have to trust me that the view is worth it.

The Western Plains

This was some of the Condobolin countryside around my cross-country check point.

The Cross Country Carnival

Today at school we had the cross-country carnival. The kids ran out to Gum Bend Lake with the seniors also doing a circuit of the dry lake bed. I had a checkpoint about 1 km into the circuit.
Some of the kids are great runners and finished well ahead of the rest. The Yr 12 students organised drinks and a barbecue sausage sandwich for the finish line. All in all it was a good day.

The drive out was long but interesting

The dust storm on the Sunday after I arrived.
Poplars lining the road.
That long road between Parkes and Condobolin.
A little country house at Bogans Gate.


THE DIARY

When I drove out of Sydney on the Saturday I took the M4 to Penrith then the road over the Blue Mountains. Springwood is 2 and a half hours away by the route. Then it takes awhile to get to Mount Victoria and eventually to Lithgow on the other side of the mountains.

Places I would like to stop at next time I'm driving through:

the wineries in Orange, see the Dish at Parkes, go to Forbes....

Hope you like my road trip photos...

|Condobolin

Condobolin is a small town on the Central West Plains of NSW. There are around 3,500 people living here. The last leg of the journey out from Sydney takes you through the long road out from Parkes. It is a long straight road alongside the railway track.

Here are some of the photos of my journey and the town,