Coolatai region, New South Wales
The place
127 acres of bushland, native plants and animals, in the country around Coolatai.
Coolatai is a small settlement in Gwydir Shire, on the North West Slopes of New South Wales. It sits on the inland road from Warialda toward Yetman and the Queensland border, about 37 kilometres north of Warialda. The locality uses postcode 2402.
The Gwydir Shire lies where the tablelands ease toward the western slopes. Two bioregions meet across this country: Nandewar, and Brigalow Belt South. Government landscape assessments describe box woodlands on the slopes, with trees such as white box, rough-barked apple, mugga ironbark, grey box and cypress pine in the broader region. Rainfall is summer-dominant, summers are hot, and winters are cool.