PHOTO: John Collins at “Breaker’s Cottage” at Nelyambo Station on the Darling River. Image supplied.
Cobar local John Collins spent five years exploring 11,000 kilometres of the Cobar Shire, conducting extensive research for his book “The Land Between Rivers – The Cobar Never Never.”
The self-published book details the history of establishing the wool industry in the region, colloquially referred to as the “never-never” in the 1870s.
Collins grew up on his family’s property ‘Balowa Station’ near Nymagee and has previously worked in shearing-sheds…