Category Archives: Sights

Cobar Heritage Museum and Peak Open Cut Mine

An old Pontiac Ute in Cobar
An old Pontiac Ute in Cobar

Cobar is called “Copper City”. They found a bit of gold amongst the copper, but that was just used to defray working costs of the mine – a nice problem to have. Although the mines are mostly abandoned now, there still is a lot of copper still – the owners are waiting for the price to rise.

Peak Open Cut in Cobar
Peak Open Cut in Cobar

The heritage society had done a great job at rescuing the various artefacts. I fell in love with the fire engine.

Cobar Fire Engine
Cobar Fire Engine

I also really want this for my work chair. The red button on the right would be my “publish the new web site” button. I reckon two joysticks would be better than a mouse!

Winch Chair from Cobar
Winch Chair from Cobar

Road to Cobar

White flowers like snow
White flowers like snow

The road from Broken Hill to Cobar was astonishingly green. It had clearly rained a lot recently. As a result, we saw a lot of wild life on this leg – more than we had seen throughout Northern Territory and South Australia put together. The winner of the group was this spiky fellow. He began digging in when he saw Dog.

Echidna

We saw a lot of emus, but this one had chicks so was quite hard to catch. Pardon the pixelation.

EmuAndChicks

Dog could not get near these, so had to do with their smaller cousins

BirdsOnRoadToCobar

There were other young ones too

RoosAndJoey

…and even some trees were in the mood for spring

Flowers

We pulled over at Mt  Grenfell Historic Site to see the Aboriginal Art. The reserve was badly sign posted and we inadvertently took off on a 3 hour walk up a mountain and only discovered our error after 45 minutes. I suppose that would cost us $80 at a gym, so we should not complain, and we did get to see the art in the end too.

AboriginalArt

Living Sculpture Garden, Broken Hill

This afternoon Carmel and I visited the the Living Sculpture Garden on a hill overlooking Broken Hill. (You can see the town faintly in the feature picture.)

A faint rainbow to the right of a sculpture
A faint rainbow to the right of a sculpture

Unfortunately it as cold, windy and about the rain while we were up there, so we did not spend very long. (It seems odd that the rain on this trip was at Kings Canyon, Uluru and Broken Hill.)

The artist was after an Aztec Sun and moon theme
The artist was after an Aztec Sun and moon theme

On a good day, the hill would be worth a walk.

Sundial - though it reminds me of cubism
Sundial – though it reminds me of cubism

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