When you visit Uluru there are all sorts of tours you can do, one of them is by camel. It was way too expensive for us to be able to do as a family, but we dropped into the camel farm to have a look at the camels the morning we left for Alice Springs. I’ve heard there are feral camels in some places of Australia, we may have seen some on our way to Longreach as there was a … 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
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
Look! A cassowary crossing roadsign!! Southern cassowaries live in a very small region of the Queensland coast, so this was pretty much my only chance to get this one. We weren’t lucky enough to spot any cassowaries in the wild but we did get to see (and feed!) some when we visited Townsville (post to come!). In Kuranda is a placed called BatReach. We were really hoping to visit but they were closed when we arrived. Their website (which has … Read More
There are some great signs along the road in Queensland. Not sure where they think we’re headed! There can definitely be a lot of time between towns. I guess I should get a picture of a kangaroo roadsign, not sure I’ve got one of those yet. They are all over the place. I think we’ve seen more signs for kangaroos than actual kangaroos. When we left Mulambin we drove for several days in a row to get all the way … Read More
Does this count as a roadsign for my collection? Not exactly what you think of as Australian animals, but we see a lot of these signs! So far up this way we’ve seen wandering cattle, but no sheep yet. After Cooktown we spent a night in nearby Lakeland so that we could make a quick visit over to Laura to see the Aboriginal rock art at Split Rock. (I never know whether I’m supposed to capitalise Aboriginal, I see it … Read More