Koorawatha

Koorawatha is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, on the Olympic Highway between Cowra and Young. It was once a large and thriving centre of activity but now has only a hotel and a cafe. It is, nevertheless, a very fine old-style hotel, though not a fancy one, with an elongated-looking stuffed wombat in pride of place on top of the main fridge. The wombat was run over one dark night on a lonely mountain road by a local man, who was so saddened by the accident that he had the creature suitably preserved, and presented it to the Koorawatha Hotel.