After leaving the flat plains of outback Queensland’s grazing districts, we continued our journey south through the centre of the State. Our destination was to an entirely different world, Carnarvon Gorge in the Sandstone Wilderness of Western Queensland. We discovered a wonderful oasis in this very remote part of Australia, hours from the nearest town. We did a couple of […]
Month: July 2026
The Heart of the Outback
The next stop on our road trip was just a two hour drive from Winton. The outback town of Longreach is a centre supporting the grazing and wool growing stations in western Queensland. It lies on the Thomson River, about 700 kilometres inland from Rockhampton. Longreach is home to two tourist attractions, The Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame, and the […]
Once There Were Dinosaurs
We are travelling again, this time on a road trip from Cairns to Melbourne and back again. The first part of our journey was to the Flinders Region of outback Queensland. Tens of millions of years ago the area was a large, shallow sea with a multitude of islands forming an archipelago and hundreds of kilometres of sandy shores. The […]