You’re invited to relive the history of an Australian icon, with a journey along the Cobb & Co Way. This 76km journey provides a wonderful insight into the lifestyle of early settlers and the journey of passengers using the coach service. The last Cobb & Co mail service in Australia travelled from Surat to Yuleba on 14 August 1924.
Prior to leaving be sure to stop in at Surat’s Cobb & Co Changing Station Museum on the corner of Burrowes and Cordelia Street to see a replica coach up close and to pick up detailed directions for this drive.
You’ll pass remnant corduroys (saplings to ease the coach over creek crossings), changing stations (such as Bainbilla and Waldegrave), native wells (hand-dug into the rock) and The Maryanne – a popular waterhole and a rock hunters paradise.
Be sure to stop and read the plaques along the road, which will give a detailed description of each site – you may even learn about ghosts and English highwaymen!
Once you’ve reached Yuleba it is an easy 60km drive west along the Warrego Highway to re-join the Great Inland Way at Roma.