Charters Towers
Charters Towers Stayed at a campsite near a friend of ours – Thiruni, she lives on the next street so it was easy for us to meet up after she finished work. We had a very interesting first evening, I was outside the van cooking dinner and the guy in the cabin behind us was […]
Porcupine Gorge National Park
Porcupine Gorge National Park About 74kms north of Hughenden. This is a bush camp with very separate camping areas for each caravan or tent. Very nicely spaced do you have some privacy and bush land between each camp area. I liked that the whole thing was one way and no reversing required as you could […]
Corfield
Corfield After Simon finished work we went up the road about 90km and stayed at another free camp in a tiny place called Corfield. There is a small town off the main road but we were staying in the free camp next to the pub. Unfortunately the pub was closed. It never ceased to amaze […]
Winton
Winton Long Waterhole We free camped at the Long Waterhole a few kilometres outside Winton. A lovely spot on a waterhole with lots of birds and cows wandering about. There are sometimes emus but we didn’t see any. Winton is a very pretty town with nice architecture. There is an open air cinema which you […]
Walkabout Creek Hotel, McKinlay
Walkabout Creek Hotel, McKinlay Had to stop at the Walk About Creek for a night just to see where they filmed Crocodile Dundee. The Never Never Tour bus is still outside and it looks very much the same as the movie. We parked out the back for the night where they have a camp kitchen […]
Mary Kathleen
Mary Kathleen Mary Kathleen is an abandoned uranium mine and ghost town. I had seen so many photos of the mine and abandoned township we really had to stop on our way through to McKinlay. We decided to unhook the van and leave it in the abandoned town. You can still see the streets and […]
Mount Isa
Mount Isa Hard Times Mine The ‘Crib’ room The Granite The Granite Isla and us Lake Moondarra Mount Isa Mine Driving towards Mount Isa from Boulia was lovely lots of wild flowers and amazing red rocks everywhere. You get to the outskirts of Mount Isa and you see three massive chimneys and the mines are right […]
Boulia
Boulia Min Min Encounter Abby Burke River Driving from Bedourie to Boulia you go pass the rare Waddi trees – they only grow in three places in Australia. On the fringe of the Simpson desert in Queensland and Northern Territory and a stand just north of Boulia. They grow up to 10m and can live for […]
Bedourie
Bedourie Golf green Golf fairway Windscreen repair Artesian bath 38C The drive from Birdsville to Bedourie was the best so far, brilliant so beautiful. They had lots of rain through here a couple of months ago and there is still plenty of water about. The wild flowers were all blooming and I have never seen […]
Birdsville
Birdsville On leaving Betoota on a very rough dirt road we passed not 1 but 4 Porsches, two of which were very sporty models. I have since found out they were electric vehicles being tested by Porsche and they stopped at Betoota pub! Arrived in Birdsville in time for lunch it was blowing a gale […]