Reader Weekend | 65 Wordsworth Ward – better known as the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt. We were also there to explore some local attractions and to indulge in some of the best regional produce. If nothing else, I think we excelled in that final pursuit… Uralla is a thriving small town that has become Australia’s Thunderbolt capital. An impressive bronze stature of him on horseback stands at the main intersection, while a granite boulder once used as a hide out – Split Rock but now known as Thunderbolt’s Rock – is now a roadside picnic spot about seven kilometres to the south. In town the bushranger’s grave occupies pride of place in the local cemetery; ironically in the shadow of the headstones of those he robbed on his last day and who later probably witnessed his burial, in June 1870.
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espite drought-breaking heavy rains in the preceding week we had great luck with the weather on the day of arrival – Friday the 13th, no less. Meteorologically,