Albert Road Trip
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 10 Nov 2014 23:17
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Another Road Trip to the Rabbit Trap Hotel,
Albert
 The colonel said we were off on a road trip taking in the centre of New South Wales and
lunch at the Rabbit Trap in Albert. Loaded in the back of the car both Bear and
I are now seriously missing being near the sea.
  The scenery is
as endless as the scorching heat.
 Ooo, a lake at
Warren. Population two thousand two hundred at an elevation of just under
two hundred metres.
 A church.
 I did like the big
machines for sale in this lot.
  Storage units.
 The land of big trucks
and trailers.
 Major grain
store.
 Brought in by truck to be
assessed.
 Tested for quality by a man and his gadget before........
 .......... the graded grains are loaded
into the silos.
 More road.
  Road signs to
break the vista.
 A bit of excitement as we have to slow for
road works.
 We enter Albert and see a potential ‘One Careful Owner’.
 Beer
advert.
 The Rabbit Trap
Hotel.
The Hotel was established around 1929.
Population of Albert within a five mile circle would be around thirty – seven in
the actual ‘town’ itself. We sat and had a snack and a cold drink and that was
that, we had done the Rabbit Trap.
   We read the signs and
it was time to load back into the car.
 Happy to see more big
girls on the way out of town.
 More road.
 Something pretty. Just when
you give up hope there is a tiny oasis of colour.
 Even a bit of green.
   Even in the middle of the day most small towns look deserted.
 So much is for
sale.
 Boarded up. These
dead towns have policies offering housing for a dollar providing the new owner
promises to stay in the area for ten years.
 Back out into the
countryside once more.
ALL IN ALL BARREN COMES TO
MIND
GLAD TO SEE IT BUT WOULDN’T WANT TO LIVE
HERE
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