Coolatai, NSW Australia Photo Gallery by Alexander Dudley at pbase.com

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 Campdraft 1-2 July 2006 ::	:: Coolatai Tractor Pull May 2014 ::	Coolatai from the East
Coolatai NSW	Coolatai, looking north-northeast	Gate at Coolatai	Coolatai Store
Church exterior, Coolatai NSW	Coolatai Anglican Church 2024	Church interior, Coolatai NSW	Church interior, Coolatai NSW
Church by moonlight and fog	Catholic Church	Coolatai Rock	Coolatai Sign.jpg
Jack Wheatley's Grave, Coolatai NSW	Nina May Wheatley died 29 July 1904	Grave of Dorcas Logan, died 20 Aug 1898	Grave of Elizabeth Wingate Fletcher, died 7 Sep 1864
Grave of Francis Fisher Fletcher, died 22 January 1870	Grave of Lena Caroline Cox, died 5th February 1905	Coolatai Fire Management	Coolatai_Firetanker7182.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 JAG		08-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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