Trilby Station in Louth, New South Wales | Bed and breakfast

Trilby Station

Locality: Louth, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6874 7420

Address: Trilby Station 2840 Louth, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.trilbystation.com.au

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16.01.2022 A fabulous picnic and swimming spot at the turn around point on one of our Mud Map drives. Thanks Dale and John for the pic!

15.01.2022 The Darling River Run - Poem By Ron Wilson @ Kingbrown Camp Oven Kitchen | Photo taken at Mt Oxley Bourke NSW. When the weight on your shoulders feels like a to...n From your job where your fingers work to the bone And the traffic fumes choke you on your afternoon run And you can’t go ten minutes without checking the phone When your takeaway meals have that same dreary taste As the cardboard they’re wrapped in and are just as nutritious And though time keeps on passing it seems most is a waste Cause the dreams from your youth now just seem fictitious When your soul needs to be cleared of its worries and pains You need to look Westward towards the setting of the sun And get away from the city with its buses and trains Out to the path you must follow the Darling River Run Where the cockys at sunrise with their shrill larikin calls Twist in the vastness of the endless blue sky And the morning light on their wingtips where it falls Seems to glisten and sparkle upon the naked eye And the smell of a campfire with fresh bacon and eggs Cooked in that old oven you got from your dad As you drink tea from a tin cup right down to the dregs Life all of a sudden does not seem all that bad Gone are the worries of that other mad life Time here is just measured by good times and fun Not by pressure and bosses and all of that strife Cause they don’t really matter on the Darling River Run Ron Wilson 2020 #DarlingRiverRun

12.01.2022 Lamb marking done and dusted for another year ... big grins all round for a fantastic result! A good drop of rain wouldn’t go astray though!

12.01.2022 60 odd years ago, when my husband and his two older brothers were annoying the hell out of their Mother, she suggested they go out into the garden at NewChum (many of you have visited here on your Mud Map drive while staying with us at the station) and plant their apple cores. Who ever would have thought an apple tree would grow to bear such beautiful apples! We have a similar tale - though our’s is an apricot tree.

12.01.2022 If you’re not yet up to driving yourself through the Outback - and you love opera - have a look at Outback Beds Tours 10 day Outback NSW tour in March next year. As well as being fully guided in a luxury vehicle, this small group tour experiences amazing accommodation options AND a performance by Go Opera Adelaide at the Piccolo Family Farm, Griffith. Only 4 spots left - Tour dates - 30-30 March 2021. #outbackbedstours #outbackbeds

10.01.2022 With the weather warming up in the next week or 2 we will start to close down on our Tours and Morning tea on our Property soon At this stage we will run until ...the end of the month and then by appointment Camping still available all year round Tours are Tuesday, Thursday’s, Friday’s, Saturday and Sunday at 11am I am closed for Tours Monday and Wednesday !!!

08.01.2022 Amazing tracks!

08.01.2022 Discover the adventure of the the Australian Outback on the #DarlingRiverRun. Camp under the stars in outback locations rich with history, wildife and breathtaking scenery. Join us on the Darling River Run, there's more than you know.

07.01.2022 Sundowners at Trilby Station with @outbackbyair. If you want to cover some serious miles, making the most of your time, then check out their multiple tours within Australia.

07.01.2022 Getting the mob together!

05.01.2022 The Tucker’s better out the back but we’re not walking in this heat! (C) Will Murray

01.01.2022 Lots of little merino wool growers - we’re stoked to have had a fabulous lambing this spring! 116% lambs marked yesterday, keeping our average thus far above 100%. #darlingriverrun #outbackbeds #outbackbyair #merino

01.01.2022 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/