Day 5. May 9 2024. Cobar: You dig it?

Started off with the Sound Chapel, which was a great mixture of old rustic water tower and new sleek concrete combined to create an artisinal feast. Literally only a couple of Ks from our campsite, it looked like it was placed in a movie set for Wolf Creek 3. It didn’t help matters that all surrounding areas were marked off limits with “Danger – Asbestos” signs everywhere. Wolf Creek 3 – he gets you, you just don’t know it for 25 years. With haunting melodies from a string choir mixed with various sounds – you wouldn’t need John Williamson to compose the soundtrack.

What also was really cool was the trust system. Give $100 cash and they give you the key, you go out to see the site for as long as you want, then bring back the key and get your $100 back. No other tourists to get in the way either – Hay did this with a few sites as well.

Then off to the lookout to check out the open cut mine. In what is classed as a medium sized mine, this mother of a hole with a portal at the bottom to go underground is otherworldly indeed. Seeing it on the TV does not give you the proper scale in any way. A feat of human engineering, tenacity, ingenuity and screwing the planet all in one immense hole.

The weather has been nice, 22’s during the day and not cold at night, but the forecast is for 20mm+ rain – the enemy of the teardrop camper, so we pack as much as we can away that night to make the getaway in the morning as easy as possible.

Facilities 6/10 – Old but clean, shower curtains are the curse of the wet.