Queensland Trip Day 5 - Tuesday 25 July 2017 - Dig Tree to Welford National Park

OUR FIRST DAY IN QUEENSLAND

 Dawn at Dig Tree camp.

Cattle station country.

A short detour into Haddon Corner and a resident of Haddon Corner.

 Disturbed feeding on roadkill. (There is so much of it.)

 Towards Windorah.

  Windorah scenes - an old time bush heritage and solar power.

Little Boomerang Waterhole camp in Welford National Park.

Queensland Trip Day 4 - Monday 24 July 2017 - Coongie Lakes to Dig tree

RETURN TO INNAMINKA 

A waterhole by the road. 

 Innamincka cemetery.

Visiting the marker of Burke's death. We became quite interested in visiting all of the Burke & Wills sites.

AND ON TO THE "DIG" TREE

 Campsite by the river at the "Dig" Tree.

Queensland Trip Day 3 - Sunday 23 July 2017 - Innamincka to Coongie Lakes

INNAMINCKA

Dawn at Minkey Waterhole

 

A visit to the town dump to dispose of rubbish from the trip - crows and an dingo scavenging.

ON TO COONGIE LAKES

 

 The camp at Coongie Lakes.

 A walk by the lake.

 Birdlife on the lake.

Evening light.

Queensland Trip Day 2 - Saturday 22 July 2017 - Italowie Gorge to Innamincka

ITALOWIE TO THE STRZELECKI TRACK VIA MOOLAWATANA STATION

 Emus in Italowie gorge.

 The plains to Lake Frome.

 Towards Moolawatana.

The Strzelecki junction - Mount Hopeless on the horizon.

ALONG THE STRZELECKI

 Passing road trains on the Strzelecki. A long and mostly quite boring drive.

 Moomba gas town. 

Innamincka's "hot rock" power generator.

OUR CAMP AT MINKEY WATERHOLE, INNAMINCKA

Queensland Trip Day 1 - Friday 21 July 2017 - Laura to Italowie gorge

Right away we decided to "hit the dirt" straight away and travelled via Wilmington and Hammond instead of our planned Orroroo. It was a day of many memories for us.

LAURA

 Leaving Laura. 

HAMMOND

Old but still alive Hammond with the mandatory visit to the cemetery.

 BELTANA

A visit to the old Beltana township had memories of the Beltana being our neighbouring small school when we were at Nepabunna. We travelled the above "old main road", now replaced on the other side of the range by a sealed road.

NEPABUNNA

The last creek into Nepabunna - still just the same as when we lived there, other than the sealed road.

ITALOWIE GORGE

An evening camp at the western end of Italowie Gorge.

Start of an adventure. The trip we have waited for.

All within an hour of our country home at Laura.