Pick This Place

It's a bit out of the way, but not outrageously so. It's in NW NSW.

Looks like the whim near Tibooburra. I was fascinated by it.
Graham.

Well done, Graham, you get the gold star.

Mike G figured out what it did, but you got the name of the device and the location.

It is indeed a whim and it located about 27km east of Tibooburra at Mount Wood in the Sturt Nat Park.

Cheers

No, Garry, not Eulo Police Station. This one is in far north west NSW.

But you're right, I did post the first one above a few weeks ago, but late on the Monday night and got no replies and it eventually disappeared with the subsequent threads, so it's here again.

Think Sturt National Park.

I know people like to sledge WA but describing the CSR as NW NSW, which is where this hut is said to be, is a bit of a stretch. :)

Mike, you're on the right track with both. The building has to do with accommodation, but as Rocco said, not in WA. It's in the Sturt Nat Park, on the eastern side.

I'll pay the "camel driven water well". It is actually horse-powered but it does lift water from a well, as you say. There are two buckets, each attached to cables that run from opposite sides of the slatted "pulley". When the pulley turns, one cable is unwound so its bucket descends into the well to be filled, while the other is wound up, so its full bucket rises, gets tripped at the top and empties its contents into the chute. The water then runs into a storage tank for use and distribution. The "pulley" is turned by a horse harnessed to the long pole with the large, pivoting stirrup on the free end. When a bucket tips over and empties into the chute the pivoted stirrup allows the horse to be turned around so that the mechanism works in the other direction until the other bucket comes to the top and is emptied. And so on.

The apparatus has a whimsical name. (There's a clue there.) Do you know what the name is, and also where this one is located - it's on an easily accessible NSW outback tourist/historical site.

Is it in one of the towns on WA's south coast?

Onslow War Memorial WA

Cheers

Paul

So great that somebody thought sensitively about the placement of the memorial. Wonderful.

Yep, Onslow. Beautiful.

You're in the right National Park, Macca. But its not near Fort Grey and it's not a shed.

It's on the other side of the Park. In its day its use was more substantial than just a shed. Think accommodation.

Sturt National Park - not Stuart :)

Cheers
Greg

My error, thanks Greg

Sorry Mike, not a dogger's hut.

This was a bit too hard so maybe it's time for the reveal.

It's Horton Park outstation, part of Mt Wood Pastoral Station, now part of the Sturt National Park. It is on the Gorge Loop Drive which largely follows Twelve Mile Creek, the main water source for the Mount Wood pastoral complex. It is one of three drives through the park. This building has survived time better than the nearby ruins of more substantial buildings and infrastructure.

The drives are long but well worthwhile as there is plenty to see in the park.. We did one a day for three days. Those pastoral pioneers were certainly a tough bunch.

I went there in January 2003. A lovely warm day. I remember we didn’t need towels after the shower at fort gray that night - instantly dry in the hot wind. An amazing landscape in summer but not one I’m too keen to do again at that time of year.

We were there just a few weeks ago, early October. 40 degrees, but the dry heat was far more bearable than Sydney's humid mid thirties.

Add another 8+ during the day for Jan. Worst is night time. Didn’t really get below 30 odd while we were there in summer. I’ve been a few times in winter and loved the desert country but I’ll leave out summer travel out there.