Driving And Exploring Outback Queensland and New South Wales
April 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Travel Australia
Driving the Outback is an exciting experience and adventure, outback Queensland and New South Wales has many wonderful and interesting places and attactions to visit.
This map shows Where the Barkly Highway crosses into Queensland to Mount Isa and then continue driving south through Charlieville to Dubbo.
This is the itinerary that we travelled when my family drove through OutBack Queensland and New South Wales on our ‘First Big Trip’. This was an amazing trip through this unique part of Australia.
Day 1 Barkly Homestead to Mount Isa.
We left from Barkly Homestead on the Stuart Highway and drive cross the Queensland border to Mount Isa. Which is very much a mining town. We stayed in a Caravan Park and went to the Mining Museum in the morning and then drove to Winton via Mckinlay.
Day 2– Mount Isa to Winton
We left Mount Isa and drove to Mckinlay, which is home to the ‘Walkabout Creek Hotel’ famous for the ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Movies. This one is a replica for tourists not the original shown in the movie. Still great to see, we had a beer there of course
We then drove to Winton. When we got closer we saw on the map that a gravel road looked shorter. Guess what! It wasn’t! So we arrived about 6 oclock. Most places were booked out, luckily the North Gregory Hotel had 2 rooms, so each family squeezed into each room using some of our own bedding. Turned out to be a great adventure, kids loved it. We had our tea there and the hosts were terrific. The water did smell like ‘rotten egg gas’ which was not good
The North Gregory Hotel is where Banjo Paterson first sung ‘Waltzing Matilda’ unfortunately the hotel has burnt down 4 times since then so it was not the original hotel. A museum has been built called the ‘Waltzing Matilda Centre’ dedicated to Banjo Paterson
Day 3 & 4 – Winton to Longreach
We left Winton QLD and headed for Longreach. We setup camp in a caravan park and did the usual shopping to stock up and looked around Longreach. Longreach is home of the famous ‘Stockmans Hall of Fame’ which we visited the next day.
The ‘Stockmans Hall of Fame’ really was worth the visit, full of Australia’s farming and outback history, being farmers ourselves it made it even more interesting. The displays have been creating in many ways to make them more interesting and interactive. The building itself is made of timber, stone and corrugated iron and is very unique and was opened in 1988.
Day 5 – Longreach to Blackall
We left Longreach and travelled to Blackall, set up camp . Blackall has an Aquatic Centre with a Olympic size pool with a spa, but the difference the water is from an artesian bore. So the water was very warm even in the big pool, the spa was beautiful, nearly too hot to get into. We did stay there for quite awhile and relaxed.
Day 6 & 7 – Blackall to Charlieville
We drove to Charlieville. The first night of our trip in Port Augusta on TV the Charlieville Camel Races were advertised to be on 21st – 23rd July, so we worked out itinerary so that we could be at Charlieville for the Camel Races.
The next day was an amazing day, first we walked to the Camel Races which was about 10 minutes away. About 6pm was a rodeo and after that was a Troy Cassar-Daley concert.
Camel races are great fun, they also had yabby races, shearing competitions, feral goat races and more. The camels were funny, one ran the wrong way, they wouldn’t go when supposed too and we found it’s best to always bet on the favourite, they seem to always win
Later we went to the Rodeo and the Troy Cassar Daley concert, both were excellent and we were exhausted
Day 8 – Charlieville to Bourke
Day 9 – Bourke To Dubbo
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