Kinchega National Park was formerly part of an 800,000 hectare pastoral lease, which once extended all the way from Menindee to the South Australian border and up to Broken Hill. We headed in to the National Park after breakfast. The River Road was closed due to recent rain but we could still get to the Woolshed, which is one of the key sites within the park.
The woolshed was built in 1875 from river red gum and corrugated iron. In that same year 72,800 sheep were shorn. 92 years later, at the Kinchega Station handover ceremony in 1967, the last sheep was shorn - and that action brought the total shorn tally to 6 million, over the life of the station.
One accommodation option for Menindee was to stay at the Kinchega Shearers' Quarters - but it was booked out at the time of our visit.
We'd both seen woolsheds before but none as large as this one. We had a thorough look around, thinking about all those sheep - and testing the cantilevered gates!
The light was lovely and I took a lot of shots of the site.
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