This is a very small free camp - but with great facilities - especially for this waning village with a population of only 7.
The free camp has 3x concrete pads for caravans and provides power, toilets and hot showers for the cost of a small donation.
We are lucky to find 1x spot remaining when we arrive late morning in Cracow.
I have to say that this is the best shower I have had so far the entire trip - and it's at a free camp!!!
Once set up we take a short walk to check out the Cracow Hotel --
- which - other than the little museum we are camped behind - is the only building in town in fair condition.
This pub is interesting as it is owned by the well known Fred Brophy - 3rd generation manager of the Fred Brophy boxing troupe.
This old pub houses many and varied artefacts --
As with quite a number of outback pubs - you can put your name on the wall, or ceiling, if you can find a spot - and I managed to find one!
On our walk back to camp we noticed this unique letterbox at the rear of the pub - great recycling idea - no waste out here!!
The lhertigate cent at the free camp has very well presented history of the township of Cracow and is housed in what was once the court house in times gone by.
Cracow in fact was established as a township during one of the last traditional gold rushes in Australia - with many people arriving in this town at the end of the economic depression of the 1930's in search of gold.
There is now a Gold Mining con any again operating nearby Cracow and this has possibly been the only reason this town has not completely 'died'.
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