pg 5 EXPLORE Magnetic Hill The kids will love this one. Magnetic Hill is a well-known tourist attraction famous for its ability to make vehicles seemingly roll uphill. There are many differing opinions on this phenomenon, one being that is simply an optical illusion. Leave your car in neutral at the bottom of the hill and watch as it rolls back up hill. Needs to be experienced to be believed! Follow the signs out Price Maurice Road (past the Hospital) approx. 3km past the township of Pekina. (Recommendation: Orroroo/ Pekina/Magnetic Hill/Black Rock/Orroroo 44km Self Drive Loop) Goyders Line This line is where the pastoral and farming lands meet. Mapped in 1865 by the Surveyor General—George Woodroffe Goyder. Take the opportunity to observe the difference in vegetation. In the Morchard Hills, 5kms from Orroroo towards Wilmington, you will find a parking bay that is home to a monument dedicated to Goyder’s Line and GW Goyder. 5kms from Orroroo on Price Maurice Road towards Pekina, is home to the monument dedicated to the Commemoration of 150 Years of Goyder’s Line. This piece depicts GW Goyder leading his horse, as he would have done many times throughout the region while surveying Goyder’s Line. The same artist of this monument (Mr Dudley Siviour) is also the creator of the galvanised artworks in the Main Street of Orroroo. Pekina Creek The Pekina Creek runs adjacent to the Orroroo Township and is a beautiful setting amongst a large variety of trees, including a giant redgum, and other native plants, interspersed with exotic plants carried down from earlier settlements along its banks. Permanent springs ensure constant waterholes, with running water in places throughout the year. The banks of the Creek contain a reservoir of sites of historical, geological and botanical interest including Aboriginal carvings, 1896 Rock Poem, excavation location of a 1 ½ ton giant wombat (scientific name Diprotodon), calcarious organic deposits of freshwater coral limestone and not to mention the great picnic spot at the Loins Park. The popular Pekina Creek Trail is a medium 2.9km loop from the Lions Park past the Aboriginal carvings up to the reservoir and along the other side of the creek, Tank Hill, the 1896 Rock Poem and numerous springs. Ngadjuri Aboriginal Carvings These carvings have been estimated as being 7,000 years old. The meaning is somewhat obscure; one theory is that they represent the fertile areas of food – the larger the circle, the more plentiful the food they are also thought to have included amongst them, directional signs setting out instructions for others. 1896 Rock Poem Two Poems were carved in the rockface by a local boy D McDonald in a secluded gully. The latter of these poems, carved in 1901, was a sentimental expression of farewell to the district. The author was departing for America, where he hoped to exploit his invention of a chainless pushbike. It was the father of “Roland Nutt” one of the friends mentioned in the poem who erected the former Yatina Hotel, visible for many miles on the Orroroo–Jamestown Road (this old two storey hotel was built in the 1870’s when it was incorrectly anticipated that the Northern Railway would pass by, but proved a boon to early teamsters). Big Red Railway Bridge This structure was erected in 1882, prior to the opening of the railway line to Carrieton in that year. The bridge was built to cross the Pekina Creek. It is a rare example of bridge engineering in the late 1800’s and tributes Orroroo’s significant railway history. Walloway Train Memorial On 16th November 1901 a North bound train with an engine driver and fireman aboard, carrying flour and copper ore and a south bound train also with an engine driver and a fireman aboard, carrying 170 bullocks consigned by Sir Sidney Kidman, collided at Walloway. The firemen from both trains were killed and many cattle were also lost. A memorial now stands alongside the railway line at Walloway in memory of this disaster. The Monument is located approximately 10km North of Orroroo on RM Williams Way towards Hawker. Turn left at Chapman Road and follow the road until you come to the Monument. pg 7 HORSESHOE RANGE MOOCKRA TOWER
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