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Coolatai, NSW Australia

Coolatai is my home town. It is north of Warialda, on the Western side of the Great Dividing Range, and is a friendly little village with the best light in Australia. It is beside the Ottley Creek in the Gwydir Shire and the soils vary between rich loams, blacksoil and sand. The population is about 130 people and one herpetologist. I moved to Coolatai because of its position at the confluence of several biogeographic zones, which endows the area with a rich mixture of fauna and flora usually more common in the north, south, east and west.
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Coolatai Sign
Coolatai Sign		 Coolatai Campdraft 1-2 July 2006
:: Coolatai Campdraft 1-2 July 2006 :: 		Coolatai Tractor Pull May 2014
:: Coolatai Tractor Pull May 2014 :: 		Coolatai from the East
Coolatai from the East
Coolatai NSW
Coolatai NSW		 Coolatai, looking north-northeast
Coolatai, looking north-northeast		 Gate at Coolatai
Gate at Coolatai		 Coolatai Store
Coolatai Store
Church exterior, Coolatai NSW
Church exterior, Coolatai NSW		 Coolatai Anglican Church 2024
Coolatai Anglican Church 2024		 Church interior, Coolatai NSW
Church interior, Coolatai NSW		 Church interior, Coolatai NSW
Church interior, Coolatai NSW
Church by moonlight and fog
Church by moonlight and fog		 Catholic Church
Catholic Church		 Coolatai Rock
Coolatai Rock		 Coolatai Sign.jpg
Coolatai Sign.jpg
Jack Wheatley's Grave, Coolatai NSW
Jack Wheatley's Grave, Coolatai NSW		 Nina May Wheatley died 29 July 1904
Nina May Wheatley died 29 July 1904		 Grave of Dorcas Logan, died 20 Aug 1898
Grave of Dorcas Logan, died 20 Aug 1898		 Grave of Elizabeth Wingate Fletcher, died 7 Sep 1864
Grave of Elizabeth Wingate Fletcher, died 7 Sep 1864
Grave of Francis Fisher Fletcher, died 22 January 1870
Grave of Francis Fisher Fletcher, died 22 January 1870		 Grave of Lena Caroline Cox, died 5th February 1905
Grave of Lena Caroline Cox, died 5th February 1905		 Coolatai Fire Management
Coolatai Fire Management		 Coolatai_Firetanker7182.jpg
Coolatai_Firetanker7182.jpg
Burn-off_7192.jpg
Burn-off_7192.jpg		 Charlie
Charlie		 Galahs
Galahs		 Coolatai Sky
Coolatai Sky
Coolatai Sky
Coolatai Sky		 Coolatai_7576.jpg
Coolatai_7576.jpg		 Approaching Storm
Approaching Storm		 Coolatai Sky
Coolatai Sky
More Coolatai Clouds
More Coolatai Clouds		 Coolatai Fog
Coolatai Fog		 Dusty_5664.jpg
Dusty_5664.jpg		 Coolatai Rainbow
Coolatai Rainbow
Coolatai Cloud
Coolatai Cloud		 Coolatai Common
Coolatai Common		 Coolatai oval
Coolatai oval		 Cattle in the long paddock
Cattle in the long paddock
Trees on the Wallangra Road
Trees on the Wallangra Road		 Windmill
Windmill		 Evening light
Evening light		 Pub Sign, north side of town
Pub Sign, north side of town
Wallaroo Hotel, Coolatai
Wallaroo Hotel, Coolatai 		Ottley Creek in Flood
Ottley Creek in Flood		 Truck smash3696.jpg
Truck smash3696.jpg		 Tennis Match.jpg
Tennis Match.jpg
Ironbark8206.jpg
Ironbark8206.jpg		 Ironbark2_8199.jpg
Ironbark2_8199.jpg		 Ironbark3_8212.jpg
Ironbark3_8212.jpg		 PaddockTree
PaddockTree
Coolatai_8145790.jpg
Coolatai_8145790.jpg
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Michael Hurley 30-Apr-2020 00:04
Michael Hurley:
My grandparents (James Andrew Hurley & Ivy Ethel May Hurley (nee Sutton/Freer) lived in Coolatai (late 1920's to late 1930's). At one time they were the licencees/owners of the Coolatai Hotel. Visited on two occasions, the last being "A back to Coolatai re-union" in the early 2000's. Lovely place.
Coralie Sallans 25-Nov-2019 03:51
Thanks for the photograph of Lena Caroline Cox's headstone. She is my husbands great grandmother and came out from Jutland, Denmark. Bit of a sad story as she died of burns received when her dress caught fire while laundering the clothes. We are planning to visit the site next year.
Richard Small 02-Feb-2019 05:41
I really wanted to reply to Ian Forster who commented on the Platfords in Coolatai.
I also would like to know information about them.. I'm doing a bit of family history research.
In particular Joyce May Platford who married Stanley M00re in Warialda in 1939.
Any info would be helpful. You can email me at richardGsmall@protonmail.com. Thanks.
Bev 25-May-2015 17:07
Love your photos.
We passed through this little town about a week ago. I was hoping you can tell me the significance of the 2 black animals (panthers with red eyes?!) on the sign of this village.
Thanks.
Guest 21-Apr-2015 23:56
OMG What beautiful pictures. I want to go there soon!
Ian Forster 17-Apr-2015 11:02
i wonder if there is still some platfords still here my grand mother was from here as well she was a walker
Ian Forster 17-Apr-2015 10:56
yar look great my great grand parents use to live here the platfords Ethel Isabel William Thomas (Bill)
Jenny 02-Jan-2014 04:03
On the picture of Jack WHeatley's grave was there another headstone beside it? As a descendant of his brother we have been told that his sister was buried alongside.
Johnny JAG08-Jul-2006 13:57
Looks like a great place to live.
Guest 18-Apr-2006 12:59
Nice place this Coolatai. I will be over for a beer some year soon.

Watch that Church. I recall one just like it (eerily so but it also had wall lanterns and a pedal powered organ), in Wandsworth, NSW. Round about 1983 the Church came and demolished it. Sold all the bits and pieces and a century of charm, character and rocking good tunes paid for another locksmith at the Peter's pearly gates.
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