Lunch in Toowoomba.
observed
Historic cemetery in Brigalow north of town
Historic cemetery in Chinchilla in old, lower northern side of town
Overnight Miles
Miles historical village
- Contains headstone moved from the Dogwood creek cemetery (which frequently flooded)
Dogwood creek cemetery restored, probably as part of walking path constructed between cemetery and creek. Horse riding path on other side of cemetery
Morning
Miles (sights actually)
Yuleba Churches
Roma saleyards -biggest in Southern Hemisphere
Roma overnight
Leaving Roma
Big Rig oil and gas display
Muckadilla
Amby cemetery: west of Roma :
Spring Hill access road off Springfield Access Rd
Amby, Maranoa Region, Queensland, 4462
Amby - former shire hall, former general store, former hotel, former school
Mitchell
- note flood height
Mungallala small town with a school still. Cemetery out of town south across railway flat and cared for, but pretty bare of ground cover making it uninviting
Morven Morven is looking sad. Little supermarket is mortgagee in possession and post office is for sale. Newsagent seems to be filling the gap.
Historic building of Charleville and levee, both earth and concrete wall with gap for highway which presumably can be closed by inserting a couple of concrete panels.
Overnight Charleville
Leave Charleville
Augathella catholic in annie st, beside church
Kenniff tree
General in jane st south west of town. Well kept but dry, older section on lower ground
War memorial in cemetery and also in town
Tambo in cemetery rd was too big
Blackall
Wool Scour, Black stump, Jackie Howe monument, Bore, nice town
Overnight Blackall
Leave Blackall
Aramac, with the white bulls throughout town
Overnight Longreach
Overnight Longreach
Longreach
Left Longreach
Lana - remnants of train station
Corfield - races 3-Aug-19, has airstrip (apparently), and remnants of train station
Masses of parrots, particularly plain white.
flinders river is wide, sandy and mostly dry. They are building a recreational lake by damming a small creek (station? School?)
Huge solar and wind farms
On site of old hughenden cemetery a single jewish grave remains
Dinosaur statue in town
Overnight Hughenden
Cattle road trains
Kronosaurus korner dinosaur museum (Richmond)
- impressive almost complete skeletons
Richmond pioneer cemetery
Overnight Julia Creek
JC to normanton has much very flat flood prone land. Sometimes there are big areas of ant hills other times none.
Cross Cloncurry and Flinders River. Many of the rivers here have water in them, but there were huge floods in this area 6 months ago killing most of the cattle herds.
Nevil Shute stayed in Normanton
Normanton train station
Krys the crocodile 28ft 4in long (8.63m)
Normanton is on Norman river
Pioneer section of Normanton cemetery
Overnight Normanton
We watched gulflander depart Normanton
Short stretch of highway 1 to croydon
Blackbull siding on the line to Croydon
Historic buildings in Croydon
Dam up behind town
Evidence of mining (open shafts)
Chinese temple site
watched it arrive in Croydon
2 nights in Karumba
tavern is a must for sunset, End of Road Motel https://endoftheroadmotel.com.au/
Karumba cemetery
Barramundi discovery centre - new centre opened recently, live export facility (no tours);
Big meat export facility, but closed for probably a couple of years because of number of cattle lost in floods earlier in year
Ferryman river cruise.
John Flynn museum
Mary Kathleen museum
Train station/Aurizon depot
Cemetery (huge) register on a board
First cemetery 1 memorial with board with known burials on a board
Airport with qantas hanger
Chinese cemetery
Overnight Cloncurry
3D map of mine
Overnight Mount Isa
Views of plant,
View from lookout
Railway,
Power stations
Casa Grande
Isa experience (museum)
Location of cemetery
Mount Isa mine head
Overnight Mount Isa
visit Camooweal (round trip) 380 4hr from Mount Isa
Australia day lawn mower races
Tree of knowledge (unmarked tree in paddock)
NT
Speeding ticket because MyCar fitted wrong driveshaft parts causing speedo to underread 20%
Cemetery - ETNA is a brand of cast iron headstones
Overnight: Mount Isa
Tuesday, 2 July 2019 304 4h 3m To Boulia
Djarra:
Cemetery, school
Boulia
- windmill at top of town
- 3D zebra crossings,
ABC on 3D crossings
- Cemetery
- red stump
- Min min experience
Didn’t see emus in town (as Mary did), but did see 3 wild ones by the highway
Overnight Boulia
Wednesday, 3 July 2019 363 4h 49m Winton accom booked
Boulia to Winton- single lane bitumen, be prepared to drop a wheel or pull off for oncoming trucks (trucks won't get off bitumen);
spectacular views from Cawnpore Lookout http://www.winton.qld.gov.au/web/experience-winton_redundant/things-to-see-do/-/asset_publisher/3GVm/content/cawnpore-lookout-and-lilleyvale-hills;
Middleton Hotel is also classic http://www.experiencewinton.com.au/middleton
Cemeteries
Thursday, 4 July 2019 Winton accom booked
North Gregory Hotel (etched glass doors and Banjo piano);
and Tattersalls Hotel.
Winton Cemetery tour http://www.winton.qld.gov.au/cemetery-register
Friday, 5 July 2019 Winton accom booked
We saw a couple of movies and went through the waltzing matilda centre today (in Winton).
Historic buildings in Winton
Film festival with coverage on TV
Overnight Winton
Saturday, 6 July 2019 Winton accom booked
Age of Dinosaurs is much closer to Winton and only short dirt/
War memorial
Pelican waterholes - 1 mile west of Winton is site of original settlement
Short film festival
Huge variation in budgets. One was essentially a home video of the kids club being run during the festival, another was a stop action video of plasticine dinosaurs done by some of the kids in above. Half a dozen were final year film/media student projects (Griffith) which I think were being made and assessed as part of the festival. Raising to high budget ones, one of which is pilot for a hollywood movie.
Sunday, 7 July 2019 from Winton 180 1h 52m Longreach
Morella
Longreach churches
Monday, 8 July 2019 305 5h 48m Windorah
Arrilalah with cemetery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrilalah
(Had been raining and 26km dirt road to reach)
Stonehenge
Swanvale Jump Up
Jundah
Windorah
Cemeteries
Tuesday, 9 July 2019 via Thylungra 246 2h 46m Quilpie Quilpie, opals, museum
Cooper creek near Windorah, grass very green in floodway
Road is emergency airstrip
Crosses kyabra creek
Dry sandy lakes
We are in Quilpie tonight. It has obviously been raining here as there was water in the roads and some of the small creeks have water sitting in them.
Near Windorah, the pasture areas are positively lush green, but get out of the channels of the rivers and it is sparse again. I guess that is channel country for you.
Quilpie railway station
locate Quilpie cemetery
Wednesday, 10 July 2019 go via Nockundra 387 4h 16m Thargomindah
Eromanga
- lambs and pheasants in school yard
Nockatunga pub, very iconic stop for coffee.
Thargomindah Artesian power plant (check when they turn it on each afternoon);
Bulloo River may/may not still be in flood, birdlife.
Noccundra the town (where the pub is) was gazetted as a town around start of 2018, previously it was just on the Nockatunga station who owned everything. The pub managers (mum and 2 daughters) have run it for 7 years, but have had freehold for 18mo.
Brolgas on highway (as well as cattle)
Noccundra cemetery
Thargominda war memorial
Thargominda historic cemetery and location current cemetery
Thargominda bore
Thargominda airport with Royal Flying Doctor Service plane parked
Thargominda hydro power plant
Thursday, 11 July 2019 278 4h 50m Cunnamulla
Lake Bindegully - birds
Eulo worth a stop on way, Eulo Queen, Pub & general store, good coffee, Randall likes Eulo leather shop, N&J recommend artesian mud baths.
Bollon
- photos of all town infrastructure
- cemetery
- levee
- war memorial
In Cunnamulla would not stay long: "Cunnamulla Fella" ;
covered railway station;
lots of closed shops and dodgy hotels.
Yep. We appear to be staying in one (which seems like tripadvisor reviews were done by friends)
Friday, 12 July 2019 295 3h 12m St George St George has a number of reasonable motels and hotels, Very highly recommend Delicate Coffee shop https://www.facebook.com/DeliCate-Gourmet-Foods-220912944616079/ also bakery; Riversands vineyards; weir and walk along river is nice.
Bollon
- photos of all town infrastructure
- cemetery
- levee
- war memorial
Riversands wines
Saturday, 13 July 2019 Overnight Goondiwindi
via Mundundi (283km, 3h 3m)?
From St George head south, have a look at Nindigully Pub - iconic;
Thallon silo murals;
Mungindi One Ton post (turn off before Mungindi).
Road Mungindi to Boomi is still half dirt (about 50km), Boomi to Goondiwindi is bitumen;
Route 85 through Weengallon to Goondiwindi is all bitumen.
Thallon cemetery dates from about 1998.
South out of town is a sign to refuse tip and old Thallon cemetery, but we didn’t find it. Another researcher found it in the past saying it had fallen into disrepair many years ago and only rubble remained, no headstones. Given this place has been around since 1908/1911 (check when), and had and has a railway, where were people buried up to 1998?
Thallon war mamorial
Thallon wombat and climbing wall
Gregory's pin
One ton post start of surveyed border Qld/NSW (the straight bit after river stops being border)
Sunday, 14 July 2019
Yelarbon
- infrastructure of town tour
- war memorial
- start of dingo fence
- location of cemetery
Glenarbon (sp)
- Lutheran church and cemetery
- Ross Schalk (local historian)
-- Beebo
-- El dorado and raleigh tobacco farming 1930s (Italians)
-- Shed in field was used in tobacco
Texas
- town tour
- location of large cemetery
Inglewood
- railway station
- town tour
- location of large cemetery
Oman Ama
Located cemeteries
Texas
Inglewood
7300 km indicated. Multiply by 6/5 because speedo underreading
8700km
