Cobar and the Cobar heritage house and open cut mine

I feel as though I need to share the spectacular sunrise we seen this morning while on the road between Dubbo and Cobar. We were so blown away by it that we just had to stop and take photos.

We left Dubbo at 6am as we didn't want to risk being stuck inside because of rain. We decided that we would stop for the night at Cobar because all of the brouchers on Cobar made it sound extremely interesting. We stopped at Nyngan - about halfway between Dubbo and Cobar around breakfast time and plugged out generator in (for the first time). It was absolutely freezing outside so we decided we needed some sort of a hot breakfast as cold cerial was not appealing at all. We made some toasted sandwiches and quickly ate them up. It was fantastic to be able to use the generator for electricity so that we could use our power outlets, with solar we are only able to use lights and television so if we wish to make hot food we have to warm up the gas oven which we then have to wait for it to cool down before we can pack up to leave again. The generator made the stop alot faster!

Thr trip to Cobar was beautiful, the dirt is getting redder the further West we go although it was hard to show the colours properly in my photos. Brent and I thought it was absolutely beautiful! We even seen some wild goats romaing around just outside of Cobar, they were a bit too hard to catch photos of though as there was no where to stop the car near them. The frost was also amazing, it covered entire fields and paddocks and was all over the side of the road early this morning. It looked like snow but it melted quiet quickly once the sun was up completely. Zac and I picked up some leaves with frost on them and pulled all the ice off, it was amazing to see that so much "ice" had formed just over one single cold night.

The seemingly "never bending" straight roads just go on for miles and miles.

The gorgeous white frost that Zaccy and I just had to see up close.

The red dirt and beautiful bushland.



Brent and Zachery outside the heritage centre when we stopped off for some tourist information on the way into town. This was before we went to the caravan park, settled in, had lunch and got Zachery out of his pyjamas haha.

We arrived at Cobar at about 11am and immediately went to the caravan park, we chose a site as the office was closed and had a sign saying to choose your own site and come back to the office at12pm. We set everything up, had a quick lunch then went up to the office. At the office we checked in then we decided to drive back to the Cobar Heritage House which is also the tourist information centre.
The heritage house is absolutely amazing! It is only $9 per adult to enter ($7 for children over 4) and it is filled with years and years worth of Cobars history. It covers the wool industry, copper mining, gold mining (and other types of mining), domestic life and so much more. It is definately a "must see" and it is worth stopping at Cobar to see this attraction alone. The Heritage house is the orginal office building of the open cut mind it is situated in front of and your entry fee to the house also allows you to wander (unguided) through the open cut mine (in some areas).  Ever item/piece of machinery/vehicle/tool/photograph in the entire place is sign posted and has information next to it. There is a simulated "underground mind shaft" you are able to walk into  and spend some time inside and there is just a whole lot more, far too much to list.




The cool "simulated mine shaft" It was a bit scary for me as im claustrophobic (a little) so I stayed near the entry, but Brent and Zachery went straight in.






Zaccy touching some sheeps wool on one of the exhibits.

This pit of water is in the middle of the open cut mine. It is 43 metres deep despite how small it is in width/length etc. It looks like a tiny dam which makes it more shocking that its that deep. Once you hit the 43 metre mark beneath the water there is another 450 metre deep vertical shaft aswell as that. The shaft goes down through where all the underground mining used to occour.


Cobar, for us, was the perfect place to discover the concept of "Seeing things for yourself". When planning this trip and explaining to people about how we are NOT well seasoned travellers and do not want to go anywhere where there may be any sort of danger from any level, we were advised that previously there had been alot of warnings about crime in Cobar. This led us to add it to our list of "places to avoid until we are a bit more experienced with travelling". However while in Dubbo we picked up some tourist brouchures and discovered that Cobar has come along way and is quiet a historical jackpot. I am so grateful for all the advice we received about this trip but at the same time I think its wonderful to come to a place we were very nervous about and find that it has changed and is quiet a beautiful place to visit. Tomorrow morning we are booked in for a bus tour of a copper mine and a gold mine and a tour of the town and its other attractions. The tour goes for three hours and will hopefully be a great experience for us and Zachery. We are also going to spend tomorrow night in Cobar aswell and will move on to Broken Hill on Friday.