Wentworth Archives - Australia by Red Nomad OZ

Australia’s Scenic Public Toilets #22 – Perry Sandhills, Wentworth, New South Wales

February 21, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Darling River, Loos with Views, Murray River, New South Wales, Perry Sandhills, Scenic Public Toilets, Wentworth

Amenities Block, Perry Sandhills, Wentworth New South Wales If time travel and/or tele-transportation leave you stranded at the Perry Sandhills amenities block, you’d use your deductive powers to interpret the clues around you. Blue sky, tall sand hills and arid-land vegetation – that’d be the desert, right? RIGHT?? Or somewhere in the Outback at the very least! Sandhills, Perry Sandhills[…]

Signs #18 – Historical? – OR Hysterical?!

November 17, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Darling River, Murray River, New South Wales, Signs, Wentworth

Historic Sign, Wentworth, New South Wales At what point is an object, action, document or place deemed ‘historic’ – and therefore worthy of recognition and/or preservation? Sometimes we realise the significance too late and tangible symbols of our heritage are lost forever. Australia’s relatively short record of non-indigenous exploration doesn’t make us immune from failing to recognise the importance, or[…]

Only in OZ #14 – Tractor Monument, Wentworth, New South Wales

June 10, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Darling River, Murray River, New South Wales, Wentworth

TE20 Harry Ferguson Tractor Monument, Wentworth In a parallel universe, the Australian government and public service pantheon would have been well placed to see first hand the effects of ‘policies’ governing the Murray Darling Basin in the capital Wentworth, at the junction of the Murray and Darling rivers. BUT … while iconic Wentworth, once busiest inland port in[…]