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Visit Corner Country and Outback New South Wales Australia
Address: Milparinka 2880 Tibooburra, Milparinka, Packsaddle and all places outback New South Wales.
Website: http://www.visitcornercountry.com.au
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25.01.2022 Wool bale scales... I just wandered over to the shed.. these are our old scales. Thanks to all who knew better than me the mystery is solved!
25.01.2022 In response to the post about Dr Mary de Garis Woman War Doctor - The Life of Mary De Garis...... I contacted our friends at https://www.facebook.com/WestprintMaps. We will be selling the book from our VIC in Milparinka next year but if you can't wait that long Graeme and Jo will have some in soon. Might be a nice Christmas present for someone you love.
24.01.2022 Seriously! What a low act...Angus needs the trailer to transport his electric chair but someone thinks its OK to steal.
23.01.2022 At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them.
21.01.2022 When the Offroad Adventure Show goes to a town like Tibooburra!
19.01.2022 Stunning view from a Wild Deserts project site, Sturt National Park. https://www.facebook.com/WildDeserts/
17.01.2022 My friends please pass this around or if you know anyone tell them to message me Rural work female all rounder second/third year back packer sign off The Family... Hotel Tibooburra NSW looking to start ASAP 88 day sign off Looking for experience bar staff, enthusiastic, self motivated female to join our friendly family team Immediate start 3 months minimum stay Must have: Fluent English, strong bar skills, great communication skills, and a NSW RSA essential This is all round position in a small rural town northern NSW, perfect for saving money and great chance to experience The Outback. - feeding livestock - Hotel cleaning - bar work - live in position - 6 days a week - fortnightly pays - food and accommodation supplied See more
16.01.2022 Esmond Gerald "Tom" Kruse MBE (28 August 1914 30 June 2011) Tom was a mail carrier on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Que...ensland. He became known nationally as the result of John Heyer's 1954 film The Back of Beyond. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1955 New Year Honours, "for services to the community in the outback". He was born at Waterloo in South Australia to Harry (Heinrich) and Ida Kruse. He was the tenth of their twelve children. He left school when he was 14 years old, and worked as a casual labourer on local farms. However, due to the Depression, he "went 'bush'" around 1934 to work in John Penna's haulage business which ran out of Yunta in the mid-north of South Australia Kruse married Audrey Valma Fuller (known as Val) on 24 January 1942 in Adelaide, South Australia. They had four children: Pauline, Helen, Phillip and Jeffery munity in the outback". In 1936 Henry Edgar (Harry) Ding (19071976) bought the mail contract from John Penna, and Kruse began his first run on 1 January of that year. Kruse bought the mail contract in 1947. He sold the contract in 1963. Kruse worked the Birdsville Track mail run from 1936 to 1957, driving his Leyland Badger truck. He delivered mail and other supplies including general stores, fuel and medicine to remote stations from Marree in north-west South Australia to Birdsville in central Queensland, some 325 miles (523 kilometres) away. Each trip would take two weeks and Tom regularly had to manage break-downs, flooding creeks and rivers, and getting bogged in desert dunes. Tom Kruse came to fame with the release of John Heyer's documentary The Back of Beyond in 1954. While the film follows a "typical" journey made by Kruse, showing the various people he met along the Track and the sorts of obstacles he faced, this particular journey was closely scripted and includes a number of re-enactments and a 'lost children' story. John Heyer had undertaken a research trip with Kruse earlier. Shooting on the film began in late 1952. He was appointed MBE in 1955 Kruse's abandoned the truck on Pandie Pandie Station near Birdsville in 1957. It was located in the desert in 1986 during the Jubilee Mail Run re-enactment, and retrieved in 1993. A group of enthusiasts led by Neil Weidenbach, with the help of Tom, fully restored the Badger between 1996 and 1999. The truck was gifted by Tom and Valma to the people of Australia and is now on display in the National Motor Museum, at Birdwood in the Adelaide Hills. It is one of the featured vehicles in the National Motor Museum's installation Sunburnt Country, Icons of Australian Motoring. Kruse retired in 1984, and moved to Cumberland Park in Adelaide. In May 1986, South Australia's 150th Jubilee, Tom re-enacted his run, with 80 vehicles joining in the northbound convoy. There was a second re-enactment In 1999, and in October of that year the Leyland was trucked to a few kilometres out of Birdsville so Tom could drive it into the township for celebrations. The next morning it was loaded with mail for "The Mail Truck's Last Run" to Marree. A major reason for the event was to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. This run resulted in another documentary, Last Mail from Birdsville the Story of Tom Kruse. As well as a book about Tom's life written by Kristin Weidenbach entitled Mailman of the Birdville Track. In 2000 Tom was inducted into the National Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs, and in 2003 he was officially recognised as an Outback Legend by Australian Geographic magazine. Also in 2003, Tom and his truck, the Badger, were nominated South Australian icons by the National Trust of Australia. In 2008, bronze busts of Tom were placed in the National Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs, National Motor Museum at Birdwood, at Waterloo (his birthplace), and at Birdsville and Marree. Publicans Phil and Marilyn (Maz) Turner of the iconic Marree Hotel commissioned Ian Doyle, Executive Producer of 'The Tom Kruse Collection' to curate and with Mark Metzger to build the Tom Kruse Museum in the renamed Tom Kruse Room in the Marree Hotel. The collection includes hundreds of photographs, documents and memorabilia from Tom's Marree to Birdsville mail run, including a floor board and the original grille from the 1936 'Back of Beyond' Leyland Badger and a signed and framed mailbag used in the production of 'The Last Mail from Birdsville - the Story of Tom Kruse' in 1999. Kruse died in Adelaide, aged 96, on 30 June 2011. Above information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kruse_(mailman) Photos from https://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/back-of-beyond/ http://www.marreehotel.com.au/attractio/the-tom-kruse-room/ & https://www.australiangeographic.com.au//outback-legend-t/
16.01.2022 The weather is warming up. At the Hotel there is cold drinks, home cooked meals and a bed to rest your weary head. It is open until 8pm tonight, Thursday and 11 to late Friday and Saturday.
16.01.2022 I dropped in to see Rebecca at the Milparinka Hotel today...she showed me this beautiful photograph that was recently sent to her. It speaks for itself...a Sunday drive at Milparinka... #milparinka
16.01.2022 It's a bit cooler today, so far...but a virtual tour of Tibooburra at night is a nice thing to do today. Photos taken a while back now by Outback Dusty Trails. #tibooburra #familyhotel #tibooburrahotel #cornercountrystore #cornercountry #visitcornercountry #outbacknsw
15.01.2022 If you have not already seen the fabulous mural in Milparinka please make it a "must see" when the Heritage Precinct re-opens in March 2021. Jodi Daley's work is outstanding. The pictures she paints tells the many stories of our amazing area. #cornercountry #milparinkamural #outbacknsw #our heritage
14.01.2022 Something special to share with you all this Sunday afternoon. https://herplacemuseum.com/biographies/mary-de-garis/
13.01.2022 This is an amazing story of a very generous person doing her bit for health care in remote Australia. Two other clinics were also constructed with the same donation, one at Tilpa and the other at Louth. When you are traveling the Darling River Run again, or heading out to Innamincka stop and say hullo. #RFDS
10.01.2022 My apologies to those who have been harassed by Dave Sharma....he has been blocked. We don't need people like him on this page! Also pretty sure that he is not "Dave Sharma"..the member for Wentworth!
10.01.2022 Our proud Australian flag flying over the Australian War Memorial, Villers Bretonneux, France. Lest We Forget. Tomorrow is Armistice Day. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morningthe "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh m...onth" of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the U.S. First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, only ending at nightfall. The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year. From Wikipeidia See more
08.01.2022 Great stuff!! Well done Miss Sarah!
05.01.2022 It's a stinker of a day and only mad dogs and Englishmen are outside. I thought we'd take an armchair drive just north of Packsaddle. Photos by Outback Dusty Trails a few year's ago now. #Packsaddleroadhouse #packsaddlecreek #packsaddlehill #visitcornercountry #outbacknsw
02.01.2022 THE RIVERS OF THE ROUTE DOWN THE DARLING Australia’s Darling River was and continues to be the lifeblood of many outback towns and stations, and... significant to traditional owners. As a whole, the MurrayDarling river system is one of the largest in the world. It’s an amazing journey with thousands of years of ancient culture, historic stations, and isolated outback towns that were once thriving river ports. A true outback experience! In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume were sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River. He discovered the Bogan River and then, early in 1829, the upper Darling, which he named after the Governor. In 1835, Major Thomas Mitchell travelled a 483-kilometre portion of the Darling River. Although his party never reached the junction with the Murray River he correctly assumed the rivers joined. In 1856, the Blandowski Expedition set off for the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers to discover and collect fish species for the National Museum. The expedition was a success with 17,400 specimens arriving in Adelaide the next year! A few years later Edward Forde was in charge of a government survey party of the Darling River in 1865-6 using a boat plus horses and carts. Forde's wife Helena, an artist, accompanied the party. Her sketches are simply beautiful and the one featured in our photos today, is currently part of a collection at the State Library of NSW. Adventures down the Darling didn’t finish with early survey expeditions In the 1890's James and Mary Trevor rowed from Bourke down the Darling River and then up the Murray River - a distance of almost 3000 km. James painted river scenes along the way and some of these, including this one (see pics) of Koondrook on the Murray River, is part of the collection at the State Library of Victoria. Apart from being a talented artist James was an expert marksman and they decided to shoot one of everything they saw. It’s said they tasted most of the birds that they shot and found that crested pigeons were so tasty they roasted enough birds at night to take with them as a cold meal the next day Fast forward to 1912 and over a two month period, Arthur Upfield rowed a boat down the Darling River with 'Paroo Ted'. In Bourke he had purchased the boat for three pounds after selling his bike for four He joined the AIF in 1914 serving in Gallipoli and France. After the war, Upfield continued working and travelling the outback and began his career as a writer. He is best known for his success as a writer in the genre of crime fiction. He wrote 29 novels in the 'Boney' series which featured the Aboriginal detective 'Napoleon Bonaparte' One of the most amazing journeys that we came across was that undertaken by the Trezise family in the late 1940's. The family which included 6 boys aged between 8 months and 16 years paddled three canoes from Victoria to Mungindi on the Queensland border via the Goulburn and Murray Rivers and then up the Darling and Barwon Rivers. The 3300+ km journey took almost 12 months. Many years later in 2007 one of the boys, Tony, published a book "Against the Current" which tells the remarkable story. Although its flow is extraordinarily irregular (the river dried up on no fewer than forty-five occasions between 1885 and 1960), in the later 19th century the Darling became a major transportation route. The pastoralists of western New South Wales using it to send their wool by shallow-draft paddle steamer from busy river ports such as Bourke and Wilcannia to the South Australian railheads at Morgan and Murray Bridge. Fun fact: Navigation by steam boat along the Darling to Brewarrina was first achieved in 1859. Brewarrina was also the location of intertribal meetings for Indigenous Australians who speak Darling and live in the river basin. Ancient fish traps in the river provided food for feasts. These heritage listed rock formations (traps) have been estimated at more than 40,000 years old, making them the oldest man-made structure on the planet!! Whether you decide to drive the Long Paddock Touring Route or paddle your way down stream, it’s fair to say the river truly is an Australian Darling Photos courtesy of Mike Bremers, Murray-Darling Journeys, who only last month returned from an epic adventure, paddling 1680km down the Darling River. History, kayaking adventures & inspiration: https://www.murraydarlingjourneys.id.au/home Darling River inspo: https://darlingriver.com.au/
01.01.2022 What is wrong with ( some) people?
01.01.2022 Just a bit of shearing going on!
