Cadelga Ruins

Thursday  20 August 2015            

A beautiful sunny day for our trek from Montkeleary Creek Cordillo Downs to Cadelga Ruins (123kms). We stopped at the old stone shearing shed on Cordillo Downs. Around the 1900's the station was running more than 85,000 sheep. Despite the hardships it managed to produce quality wool for export to world markets. The Afghan camel teams hauled stores up the Strzelecki Track from Farina to the station and returned with wool. The 1,200 km round trip could take  up to 2 months to complete. In 1981 the lease was taken over by the  Brook family who also own other stations in the area and the property now runs cattle.

 

We are now camped on the banks of Cadelga Water Hole not far from the  Cadelga Homestead ruins which we are yet to explore. The flies  are very annoying and we cannot find our fly nets - probably left them home or we will find them when we return home and unpack the truck. The track today was mainly through gibber country  and looked very  inhospitable. The cattle we saw looked healthy and in good nick.