CONDOBOLIN NSW

  Stopping here for a Pie for Lunch (rated 6 aout of 10), since it is just 4 km to my Overnight Camp, Gum Bend Lake. Condobolin is  small place I  would say with about 2500 residents. The Information Centre was closed (at 12.30pm!) so I had a guess (I latter found out the correct figure is 3500). It does house a major population of Aboriginal People from the Wiradjuri Nation. Condobolin is the home of the Kalarie people. of the Lower Lachlan Region and is considered by other Wiradjuri People to be the heartbeat of the Wiradjuri nation, rich in local history,art,music and dance.
  John Oxley in 1817 and Thomas Mitchell in 1836 were the first Europeans to visit the region. Squatters soon arrived and by 1844 the "Condoublin" run had been established. The Town was Gazetted in 1859 but for over 20 years it was essentially a stopover and river-crossing for drovers moving stock from the North and West of NSW. For this reason there were a few permanent residents in what was a pastoral area with large holdings. It is now a prime cropping, sheep and beef producing area. the Town also benefitted from the discovery of Copper at Melrose to the North in 1885. A Municipality was declared in 1890. At the end of 1894 Gold Fever broke out at the Overflow Station, immortalised in the Banjo Patterson's classic "Clancy of the Overflow". agricultural production was expanded when the Wyangala Dam was established on the Lachlan in1935. Condobolin now acts as a Service Town for the district.
 How's that for an insight into the Town with the Information Centre closed?

Some sights in Condobolin