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A flashback from April!  We spent a couple of nights in Junee to visit the Junee Licorice & Chocolate Factory and the Junee Roundhouse Museum.  It seemed like all the other travellers only spent one night.  They’d arrive midday and visit both of these places that afternoon, then they were off in the morning.  The ease of travelling without kids!  Visiting both attractions the same day would have been too much for us, especially with a toddler.  We chose to … Read More

When you are in Tennant Creek you can visit the information centre for a key to tour the old telegraph station north of town.  Our caravan park also had a key, so we borrowed it for a look.  You can tour the station without a key but you won’t be able to get into all the buildings.  So much history here, I’m so glad we stopped in during our stay. The history behind the telegraph line is fascinating.  They built … Read More

We spent several nights in Tennant Creek, we needed to catch up on laundry and just stay put for a couple of days.  While we were there we visited the Pebbles, the aboriginal name is Kunjarra.  There’s about six kilometres of unsealed road on the way there.  Look how red the dirt is! There’s a path winding through the Pebbles, and due to the sacredness of the site you are supposed to stay on the trail and not climb the … Read More

Since leaving the coast we’ve had many long drives with not much in between.  That means road trains are more common, and some of them are huge! The terrain has been unchanging for the most part.  Flat, very flat. On our last night in Queensland was spent in Cloncurry.  We had intended to go to the John Flynn museum but heard it was expensive, so we decided to save it for a Royal Flying Doctor Service museum later in our … Read More

The morning we left Winton we had a quick look at the Musical Fence.  I’m so glad we did. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.  I was picturing something like this (which ran around the outside of the area), where you could run a stick along it and make music on a fence.  But that by itself didn’t sound too special, you can do that with nearly any fence. I’d heard you could play music on the fence.  That’s … Read More

Look!  Airplane crossing!  This was outside of Winton.  I’ve seen a few of these and finally managed a picture of one.  The most memorable one we saw was on the Queensland coast.  We stopped at a rest area just after the plane sign and while we were there a plane came in for a very low landing right over the top of us.  It was at a crazy angle and I was sure it was crashing!  (It wasn’t!) I’m told … Read More