Start your Australian outback experience at Hay, the crossroads town in the centre of a 40,000 square kilometre flat plain, bisected only by the redgum lined Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Rivers. The Sturt and Cobb Highways cross each other at Hay, providing an introduction and easy accessibility to the vastness of the Australian Outback.
Linger a while to explore the wonderful scenery, history and atmosphere of this very welcoming town.
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*What to expect:*
0:00 Start
0:17 Naming of Hay
0:38 Sturt’s 1830 expedition
1:20 1872-1942 Council Chambers
1:30 The Ringer Trademark
2:26 Survey Tree
2:36 Witcombe Fountain
2:47 Shear Outback
3:22 Silo Art - Hay’s wartime effort
3:48 Hay Gaol
4:12 Hay Town Centre
4:24 A studious sheep
4:40 Sheep will follow sheep - The Bell Wether
5:14 The One Shilling Sheep
5:29 Hay’s lost banks
5:49 The fire station
6:06 Foodworks murals
6:36 Hay Railway Station
7:04 Plains Wanderers
7:31 Vanguard on a pole
7:52 Hay wharves & waterfront
8:07 Paddle Steamer Wanera
9:29 Hay Bridge
10:54 Bridge Art
11:10 Bushy Bend & Leonard’s Punt
11:27 Cemetery Bend
11:41 A canoe tree
12:00 Lang’s Crossing Place
12:47 Free Camping
13:05 The daddy of all dust storms
13:23 Hay War Cemetery
14:12 Hay General Cemetery & some stories
14:24 Sgt. Thomas Devonald
14:43 Smith family of Black Swamp
15:02 Ronald family of Nap Nap
15:21 Harry Mumford
15:43 Bert Sullivan
16:00 Runn, Ross & Naylor
16:32 Menasche Bodner - an accidental war victim
16:54 How to escape from Hay Gaol
18:14 End credits
*Music:*
Neil Murray - ‘Lights of Hay’
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Orquesta Club Miranda - ‘So Far Away’ (Dire Straits Instrumental.
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Kevin Sullivan - ‘Outback Australia’.
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White Knight - ‘Rainfall’.
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*Reference Sources:*
‘The Witcombe Heritage’ by Hay Historical Society
‘The Riverina - People & Places’ by R.B. Ronald.
NLA Trove Newspapers.
Town information signs.