A short stop at Julia Creek for lunch allowed us to check out the Information Centre which is really well done, comprising of 3 little renovated fettlers cottages, even with its own small auditorium where you can choose short info DVDs to watch.
We pulled into Cloncurry midafternoon and drove straight to 60 Gregory Street, the house Dwayne spent some of his childhood in, just to reminisce. We decided to stay at Wals camp ground on the edge of town where we could enjoy cooking dinner on the fire again and sitting under the stars. One thing I will miss so much if we settle back into suburbia, is the sky! I know that sounds strange, the sky is everywhere, but there is nothing like the sky out here, night or day, it is absolutely breathtaking!
The landscape has changed again and we are surrounded by mountains of black ore rock, pointing upwards like turrets on a castle. The landscape has changed a lot as we travel west, more than I expected. From the grassy plains at Longreach to the Jump-ups (small hills rising in the flats) in Winton and the black ore here, ever changing.
Saturday morning we spend time in Cloncurry, but are a little disappointed as the Flying Doctor Museum (as it was birthed here) is closed until May and the Info Centre and museum is closed on weekends, but we make the most of it by having a big BBQ brunch in Mary Kathleen Park which is lovely, a drive to Chinamans Dam and then onto the Isa. Along the way we check out a monument to Burke and Wills at one of their campsites and to the Kalkadoon Tribe whose land we are now travelling on, who were sadly all massacred at once by some suspicious farmers. History can be inspiring and shameful in this country.
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