On Saturday 6 April, 2024, just a little over 200 years since Alan Cunningham found Pandora Pass over the Great Dividing Range and onto the Liverpool Plains, Coolah locals gathered on the ‘Coolah Creek’ property, not far from Cunningham’s Camp, to celebrate this bicentenary.
With a backdrop of wooded hills, a rocky creek and grassy paddocks, the locals enjoyed a campfire and a lunch of slow cooked lamb, savoured billy tea and sweet treats, tapped along to live music by November Shorn and enjoyed old fashioned fun with some dancing, kids old-style games and the star of the show a Cobb & Co coach that took everyone for a ride to experience travel 19th century style.
Attendees had been encouraged to attend in historical garb and there were a number of hard-working gentleman that looked the part along with ladies in various styles from the 1800s. Awards were presented to best costumes – ladies (Celia Piper), gents ( Ben Cavanagh ), girl (Zara Schneider), boy (Hunter Schneider), best petticoat (Donna Pilcher ) and best beard (John Horne).
Everyone who attended thoroughly enjoyed the fun and might well be looking forward to the next opportunity to celebrate in similar style.
