Day 1: 4/9/2014 Sydney, NSW to Nygan, NSW Distance travelled: 587km
Well were off. Our journey started at 9:15am from home and
heading North West for Nygan. Good
weather, a very uneventful drive, just the way we like it.
We arrived in Nygan around 5pm. Nygan is a small town of around 2,500
population. The first European settlements started around 1835. Today Nyngan's
role as a rail centre has terminated with the cancellation of the service to
Bourke and it is now a service centre to the surrounding district. Nyngan,
little known in the east, entered the national psyche in 1990 when it was
deluged with the worst floods of the century. The townspeople laid 260,000
sandbags on top of the established levee but the waters inundated the entire
town, causing $50 million worth of damage and necessitating the airlift by
helicopter of 2000 citizens, virtually the entire population. It really looks like a town on the decline.
We stayed at a Pub/Hotel called Cononbar Hotel. This is a
typical small town Pub. The owner Jason is a very casual and easy going
publican who likes a drink or two. We had diner in the Pub and watched the
South Sydney vs. Roosters game on TV. Roosters
won, now it’s up to the Manly Sea Eagles to win and take the minor premiership.
Go Eagles.
Next stop is Broken Hill NSW.
Picture of Helicopter commemorates the airlift of the 1990 flood.
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