Wednesday, 23 October 2024 With over 5,000 kilometres recorded on the trip metre since we left home, we were on the road again today planning to add another 477 kilometres to that total as we head for Emerald via Clermont. But before we left Bernie re-packed our pillows in the duffle bag we’ve been packing […]
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Tuesday, 22 October 2024 This morning we pulled out off the motel car park about 8.00am heading for historic Ravenswood, North Queensland’s oldest surviving inland town and another living tribute to the region’s gold mining history. About 20 kilometres out of Charters Towers we crossed the Macrossan Bridge over the mighty Burdekin River. The Burdekin
Monday, 21 October 2024 This morning as we headed out of Mount Surprise, we stopped to photograph the town sign on the eastern end of town and the Einasleigh River as it is one of the few rivers we have seen with water still flowing at the end of the dry season. It looked lovely
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Sunday, 20 October 2024 This morning, I popped into the bathroom for my shower, switching on the light and the fan on my way in because the switches are on the outside wall, closed the door and put the bathmat down on the floor. Blimey, talk about suction, the bathmat was undulating like a flying
Saturday, 18 October 2024 Our fridge battery is being a problem. It has been refusing to charge properly for about a week now only managing to get to around 30-40% charge … at best. Fortunately, we’ve had refrigerators to move our supplies into overnight when the charge has been dropping lower still. Even our longer
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Friday, 18 October 2024 With our tour of Cobbold Gorge starting at 7.45am we hit the bistro for breakfast right on opening time at 7.00am. We were offered an excellent selection of fruit, cereals, toast and spreads and a range of cooked breakfast items too: eggs scrambled, fried or poached, mountains of bacon, mushrooms and
Thursday, 17 October 2024 This morning, we travelled between Normanton and Croydon AGAIN! The logistics of doing the Gulflander train trip makes this inevitable! We drove south out of Normanton on the Burke Developmental Road before turning left (east) onto the Gulf Developmental Road/Savannah Way towards Croydon. Not long after turning off we spied a
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Wednesday, 16 October 2024 We were up early this morning as we needed to be back in Normanton to catch The Gulflander at 8.30am. Although it was well past dawn there were still quite a few wallabies about but fortunately none silly enough to jump out in front of us. As we drove back to
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 Checked out the window at about 6.20am for the cloud phenomenon known as the ‘Morning Glory’. This is a spectacular cloud that forms out over the gulf in the mornings between September and November. BUT… not this morning. Of course the atmospheric conditions have to be exactly right for the cloud
Monday, 14 October 2024 Our final push north today but first we had to return to Cloncurry from Mount Isa, so we started out heading east back along the Barkly Highway. Arriving in Cloncurry about 9.15am we refuelled at the BP Servo and then made our way around to the bakery to buy some sandwiches
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