Glenreagh show grounds were a great choice for an over night stay. We arrived early in the afternoon and duly paid our $8 for the nights stay. The toilet block was well looked after and although the shower block was but a mere tin shed. The showers were fantastic, lots of power and lots of heat.
Stunning views with lots and lots of space. You could set up camp just about anywhere.
We also met our first live wallaby! We had seen many as road kill on our journey up from Victoria. So it was great to see this little Skippy tut tut tut! "Whats that Skip? Car crash send chopper?" tut tut tut.
Sorry I just couldn't resist.
Sadly, those that understood that last bit of dribble will probably not want to admit to it.
Now we have all heard of Horse power, you know that stuff about how many draft horses versus a steam locomotive. You know a unit that is used to measure the power of engines and motors.
One unit of horsepower is equal to the power needed to lift 550 pounds one foot in one second. However the term horsepower has widely been replaced by the watt. One horsepower equals 745.7 watts. So if a one ton draft horse exerts x amount of power? Is it fair to assume a new role for casper when driving up a steep hills?
Now before all you animal rights people get your knickers in a twist and start calling the RSPCA! If you take a closer look Casper is wearing his new $5 elasticated twangy bungee pulling lead. So he should be all good to go!
Speaking of horse power and locomotives the Glenreagh Mountain Railway Inc is also housed close by and I was lucky enough to be able to meet one of the volunteers working in the large shed.
He spoke about the plight of the railway and the need to preserve Australian steam locomotives for the future of all to enjoy. After seeing 1919 in her shed, I have to agree with him. She was never built to be stationary and it is a sad state of affairs to see local history going down the pan.
1919 probably in her heyday and before the do gooders got involved with issues such as health and safety and work cover and the like!
Sadly as i found her in the shed. 1919 (Betsy) will no longer chug her way around New South Wales unless money is spent on her new boiler and further money is spent on the rail tracks that support her. It is such a pity, that a thing of such magnificence can be hidden away. Local and State governments should be ashamed of themselves to let this happen. In my opinion they should skim off the profits attained from gambling (this is only one way to obtain the monies needed, there are many more that we all can think of) to get this problem sorted.
Oh by the way Glenreagh also has the Golden dog pub
and not as we thought the biggest Dingo. However Mr Dean (owner of the pub) and who also helped in the construction of the Big Banana believes that it will bring more customers to his front door. Well Mr Dean if it doesn't? It won't be for the like of trying.
Latitude -30 03 08S Longitude 152 58 27E
Dump-point - No Toilets - Yes Water - Yes Pets - Yes Shower - Yes
Length - Big rig Level - Yes Noise - No Grassed - Yes Cost - $8 per night Time Limit - None
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