Australia
Water and Cotton
Description
Explore the vast irrigation bores, reservoirs and ditches around Collarenebri, and fly over Moomin Gin.
In 1962 a small group of pioneering cotton growers formed a cooperative at Wee Waa and processed 98 bales of cotton in the first year. Today Namoi Cotton processes up to 84,000 bales per week at it's 11 facilities. In 1794 the first cotton gin patent was granted in the USA to Eli Whitney. Today at Moomin Cotton Gin the process of separating cotton lint from it's seeds with the descendants of Whitney's invention.
Nav data
- Country: Australia
- Locale: N.S.W. | Far West
- Route: YCBR Collarenebri to YCBR Collarenebri
- Distance: 69 nm
- File name: australia-YCBR-to-YCBR-VFR-collarenebri-230608
Waypoints
- WP 1 - N for 10 nm to the Bore at Mogil on Purtles Road
- WP 2 - SE for 11 nm to Lightning Ridge Airport YCLM
- WP 3 - SE for 7 nm to the NE corner of a reservoir on Baroona Road
- WP 4 - SE for 11 nm to Woodvale, at the NE corner of a reservoir
- WP 5 - W for 12 nm to Moomin cotton gin and Avondale Feedlot, Belarra Road
- WP 6 - NE for 15 nm to the bridge over the Barwen River at Collarenebri
- WP 7 - N for 1 nm to land at Collarenebri YCBR
WP 1 - N for 10 nm to the Bore at Mogil on Purtles Road
WP 2 - SE for 11 nm to Lightning Ridge Airport YCLM
WP 3 - SE for 7 nm to the NE corner of a reservoir on Baroona Road
WP 4 - SE for 11 nm to Woodvale, at the NE corner of a reservoirWP 5 - W for 12 nm to Moomin cotton gin and Avondale Feedlot, Belarra Road
WP 6 - NE for 15 nm to the bridge over the Barwen River at Collarenebri
WP 7 - N for 1 nm to land at Collarenebri YCBR