Cobar is 2:30 hours from Hillston, and they told me there was nothing between the two towns. Nevertheless I was able to spend night 60 at Mount Hope and night 61 in a gravel pit beside the road. Between Hillston and Mount Hope I passed a sign that announced I was entering the outback. Mount Hope, now with a population of less than twenty became a copper mining centre during the 1870s. Ore was taken on a dray to Hay on the Murrumbidgee River, and then by river to Adelaide. The Mount Hope Hotel offers free showers and has the only surviving concrete bar in NSW (see slide). I stopped for lunch at the site of the Gilgunnia Goldfields, where some memorabilia are displayed, after which I headed to the gravel pit, where I enjoyed a quiet and solitary night..
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AuthorIn mid 2018 I started recording each night I sleep in Bertha: sometimes just for myself, sometimes to share with friends and other travellers. Archives
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