Hay to Balranald via Oxley and 'The Back Road'; once the main road before construction of Sturt Highway.
Along the way, we visit old settlement sites, weirs, hotel sites and public watering places while reflecting on the history from more than 100 years ago.
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*What To Expect:*
0:00 Start
0:14 Distances
0:33 Gordons Point
2:16 Four Mile Reserve
2:57 Tongul School site
3:34 Hay Weir
3:54 Old Benduck
4:28 The Back Road
4:48 Darcoola
5:19 Newmarket
5:38 Maude Revisited
5:56 Woolamie
6:49 Kalyarr main entrance
7:02 Travelling stock
7:38 Pimpara Creek
7:55 Pimpara Island
8:13 Toopuntal Road
9:04 Sturt sees the Lachlan
9:24 Tupra
11:05 Oxley Crossing
12:11 Oxley
13:15 St Barnabas
14:34 Lake Comayjong
15:24 Juanbung
15:39 Land for conservation
15:56 Tysons Tank
16:11 Morven Tank
16:27 Glen Dee Tank
16:42 Redbank Weir
17:25 A former bridge
18:12 Last of the steamers
18:37 Flood channel
19:11 Marimley Lake
19:28 Penarie
20:02 Homebush Hotel
21:46 Gypsum Mine
22:02 Paika
22:53 Boxdale
23:10 Balranald
23:44 End credits
24:17 Sundowners
*Music*
‘Long Way Round’ by Ashleigh Dallas & Luke O’Shea.
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‘Whoa Bullocks, Whoa’ by Tracy Coster & Glenn Jones.
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‘Lonesome Road’ by Russell Morris.
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‘Dinki Di Aussie’ (Instrumental) by Alisha Smith.
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‘Ghost Town’ by Katie Melua.
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‘River’ (Instrumental) by White Knight (Roy Orbison Cover).
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‘Cobb & Co’ by Norma O’Hara Murphy
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*References*
NLA Trove Newspapers.
‘The Balranald Story’ by Arthur Feldtmann
‘The Riverina’ by Robert B. Ronald
Link to Woolamie flood image:
www.theland.com.au/story/7994023/hay-hell-floods-and-booligal/
© Photos and slideshow Luke Steenhuis 2024.