The road from Forbes to Orange is isolated and winding, and passes through the little township of
Eugowra. It was near here that the Gardiner Gang (including Ben Hall) held up the gold escort coach and made of with the loot. We wandered off the modern road and managed to find the remains of the old trackway, where we could still see ruts made in the rocky surface by wagons. There, below a bluff covered with boulders and gun trees, we found Escort Rock, the spot where the hold-up took place! On to Orange, famous for wines and
Banjo Paterson. It was dusk when we arrived there and so there was nothing much else to do but book into the Parkview Hotel and enjoy an unfeasibly large supper. And so we arrived back in Sydney the next day ... to find, in due time, that our departure for the Red Centre was one day earlier than we'd remembered! The next stage of our journey, by air to Alice Springs, and then in a
BRITZ campervan to the desert follows asap!
I'm actually writing this (real-time) in Kangaroo Island. Yes, that's how far behind I am with the blog. Here we've seen seals, sea lions, koalas, wallabies and many fairy penguins. Last night, judging by the footprints, they tried to hijack our car from outside our room at the Penneshaw YHA - they certainly serenaded us to sleep, and awake, and to sleep ... all night!!
The road from Forbes to Orange is isolated and winding, and passes through the little township of Eugowra. It was near here that the Gardiner Gang (including Ben Hall) held up the gold escort coach and made of with the loot. We wandered off the modern road and managed to find the remains of the old trackway, where we could still see ruts made in the rocky surface by wagons. There, below a bluff covered with boulders and gun trees, we found Escort Rock, the spot where the hold-up took place! On to Orange, famous for wines and Banjo Paterson. It was dusk when we arrived there and so there was nothing much else to do but book into the Parkview Hotel and enjoy an unfeasibly large supper. And so we arrived back in Sydney the next day ... to find, in due time, that our departure for the Red Centre was one day earlier than we'd remembered! The next stage of our journey, by air to Alice Springs, and then in a BRITZ campervan to the desert follows asap!
I'm actually writing this (real-time) in Kangaroo Island. Yes, that's how far behind I am with the blog. Here we've seen seals, sea lions, koalas, wallabies and many fairy penguins. Last night, judging by the footprints, they tried to hijack our car from outside our room at the Penneshaw YHA - they certainly serenaded us to sleep, and awake, and to sleep ... all night!!
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