Outback Queensland

In my last post, I mentioned that whilst Peter took a soak in the spa pool at Quilpie, I went for a walk up the town. Well, I actually booked us into a night show at the Information Centre of the history of Quilpie. It featured a film after we were greeted and given a 'happy hour' snack box and a drink of wine, beer or punch AND you got to keep either your wine glass or stubby cooler.

The boxes included dip, cracker biscuits, carrot sticks, dried fruit, nuts and fresh strawberries and a couple of grapes as well. They ladies at the Information Centre certainly catered for each person - for me it was a gluten free, dairy free box - I didn't get any chocolate.

The film that we saw on the history of the Quilpie area was extremely interesting, the pioneer families that came out to this region, the bushfires over the years along with the droughts and floods that are always threatening the area. And yes, it was an outdoor showing - bless there socks, the ladies provided blankets if you needed them as it was quite cool once the sun set and nightfall set in.

 

A very worth while presentation.

The following morning saw us hit the road again and really heading into the Outback by travelling out to Eromanga - not the longest day of travelling, but an interesting one.

Several times on the way out we came across cattle on the road that we had to slow down for and make sure that none of them decided to 'take us on'. Mind you they all looked in great condition considering it seems to be quite dry out this way. (Please excuse the aerial in the middle of the photo - sometimes you just can't take photos around the aerial)

Now for our welcome to Eromanga:

Eromanaga is the furthest town from the sea in any direction, which also makes it the furthest fuel supply and the furthest pub from the sea in any direction too.

We spent the afternoon exploring about their claim to fame about dinasaurs in this area in years - OK millions of years ago - so this saw us visiting the Centre for Dinasaurs just outside of Eromanga.

There is also a display of baby dinasaurs set out in the grounds.

Unfortunately we missed out on doing a tour of the facility.

After a good nights rest, saw us heading off towards Thargoindah. On the way though we pulled off for a real 'outback' morning tea. We boiled the kettle on our little folding table in the middle of nowhere where it was so eerily quiet.

Then with taking off again, we decided to do a little detour to check out the old historical pub at Noccundra which is on the way to Cameron's Corner which is the corner that Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia meet.

There were quite a number of campers out there on the banks of the Noccundra Waterhole fishing.

More cattle greeted us on the road as we travelled into Thargomindah.

Thargomindah is a tiny town with not real lot going for it, and this was due to the only supermarket being burnt down approx. 10 months ago. However we did manage to get a few things that we needed.

It is now that we see that we have turned east and on the road heading for home - but there is still a lot to see along the way.

The drive to Cunnamulla was again fairly long single lane roads, but we had a stop off at an even smaller town and oh, I was in my element - there was a tiny patchwork and leather work shop. Yes!!!

Onto Cunnamulla where we again fueled up and visited the Information Centre where there is a statue of the 'Cunnamulla Fella' that was immortalised in a song by the great country singer Slim Dusty.

Peter is a long time fan of Slim Dusty, so was quite taken to get a photo with this guy. He then suggested I have a photo too, with me holding the 'Cunnamulla Fella's' hand.

Time now to put the feet up, and have a break and an ice cream as a treat ( and yes, a dairy free one for me).

For now, catch you next time,

June