Sunday, 13 October 2024 Last night we spent some time on the verandah watching mother nature’s light show. The lightning was lighting up the whole sky lavender which was impressive and there was quite a bit of fork lightning too. We suspect that last night’s rodeo was probably abandoned due to the weather. It was […]
Saturday, 12 October 2024 This morning, we headed west on a Matilda Byway towards Mount Isa using the Barkly Highway (A2). After crossing many dry rivers and creeks over the last few days we finally crossed an actual waterway, the Corella River about 50km west of Cloncurry. The river was dammed in1956/57 to provide town
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Friday, 11 October 2024 We headed out about 8.30am this morning heading for Cloncurry. Our first leg was punctuated only with a couple of feral cats, a couple of emus, cattle (safely in paddocks, not on the road) and lots … and lots of kites. There were flocks of kites circling above every poor kangaroo
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Thursday, 10 October 2024 This morning, we completed our showers with orange towels! On this trip our towels have alternated between white and grey so the towel offering here at the Outback Motel is very cheerful for first thing in the morning. Love it! Another early start today to make sure that we were out
Wednesday, 9 October 2024 It was glorious in Longreach this morning as we were packing the car. It was going to be much warmer later on, but at 7.30am it was beautiful. All the more beautiful with Cathy saying that a FB friend had posted that it was only 1°C in Melbourne this morning but
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Tuesday, 8 October 2024 At 8.00am Bernie headed down to the Outback Pioneer’s shop to pick up our tickets for this morning’s Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience. We called past the shop yesterday afternoon but, of course, they were closed because it was a public holiday! We needed the tix because there had been instructions
Monday, 7 October 2024 Oh my, we’re just having so much fun in Outback Queensland on a long weekend!! Over the last couple of months, we have checked and re-checked the websites of places that we planned to visit because so many of them included disclaimers about dates and hours being subject to change without
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Sunday, 6 October 2024 We are in Queensland, and we didn’t think last night’s change to Daylight Saving Time in NSW and Victoria would affect us at all. Wrong! With it being a travelling day the alarm on my phone woke me at 6.55am. I clambered out of bed and had my shower. Despite us
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Saturday, 5 October 2024 This morning, we were out at the Secret WWII Base just before 9.00am to pick up the Tag-along tour of the site. Despite it being the end of the season, the number of vehicles and people booked onto this morning’s tour was … impressive. I think Abbie thought we were all
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Friday, 4 October 2024 An interesting night with the bar fridge standing in as my bedside table. Bernie had a plush red velvet throne-like chair on his side. I’m always bemused by small rooms that try too hard to pack in too much furniture … and don’t actually provide you with what would be practical.
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