Hi everyone, after a 3 nights at Charters Towers we set off for Hughenden heading west. We had 2 nights there & are now at Julia Creek, a little bit over halfway between Townsville & the NT border. The countryside is amazing after being in the tropical rainforest areas, quite desolate & remote. There is roadkill, mainly 'roos every few hundred metres, easy to spot because of the birds picking at it. Also we have seen quite a few feral cats doing the same, the birds fly off as we approach, but the cats don't move. There are stacks of roadtrains as well. We bought a UHF radio, & tune into the truckies frequency, really entertaining. Grae passed a couple of roadtrains yesterday, and I got on the radio before we passed them- "Roadtrain 786, caravan passing you" Roadtrain answers "Copy that:, clear to pass" I am desperate to say "copy that" to someone soon! Below are a few photos around Hughenden, which is a very small outback town.
On the road from Charters Towers to Hughenden-lookout
That's us in the middle at the lookout
Roadkill
I love this picture- roadtrain parked at side of road- I got Grae to park nose to nose with it to give a sense of how long these monsters are. As you can see, we are less then a third of it's length! Copy that!
Roadtrain leaving
Federation Rotunda in Hughenden, made from 20 foot windmills dated 1912 & 1916.
Flinders River-Qld's longest river, 840 kms & flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Named after Matthew Flinders by Lieutenant Stokes of HMS Beagle in1841
Full bodied replica of a Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasauras skeleton
Fossil museum displays
The historic Coolabah tree
Hebrew Grave-the grave of Jeanette Tolano, who died in 1883, it is the only remaining grave from the old cemetery. It was never relocated for spiritual reasons.
Jeanette's grave- died in childbirth
Pub at Prairie- about 40 kms east of Hughenden, population 50.
Inside the pub
On the dentists chair!
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