Tuesday, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:55
I plan my trips by looking at various
tourist information centres along the way as
well as using Camps 7 and Badger’s site for caravan park info
http://
home.vicnet.net.au/~badger04/
Some
places you may wish to see are
www.paronellapark.com.au/ near
Innisfail I did not like it but is it very popular and one of the 100 things to see in Qld
Crystal Caves
Atherton www.crystalcaves.com.au/free-tour-of-the-cry.
http://www.tablelands.org/malanda/index.html
Curtain Fig, Various waterfalls, Lakes Barrine and Eacham
Innot Hot Springs between
Ravenshoe and Mr Garnett Stay in van Park or lie in the creek bed for hot mineral water flowing from creek bed
Bedrock Vilage Caravan Park at Mt Surprise lie in the creek bed for hot mineral water
Couple of free/cheap camps near
Normanton See Camps 7
Normanton Caravan Park probably need to book
Karumba 70km away
Karumba Point Tourist Park need to book
Normanton –
Burke & Wills Roadhouse –
Terry Smith Lookout (very good
free camp) 305km from
Normanton or 78km north of
CloncurryTerry Smith Lookout –
Cloncurry –
McKinlay 283kms about 5 hours
Walkabout Creek Hotel Originally known as the Federal Hotel and was built in 1900 and was licensed in 1901. The
Walkabout Creek Hotel is now famous for being recognised as the pub in the Paul Hogan movie "Crocodile Dundee". The pub, together with other buildings in the town were featured in this iconic Australian film.
Winton 3 van parks but suggest you book, see Badger’s site. To See: Waltzing Matilda Museum, Age of Dinosaurs,
Lark Quarry Dinosuar Tracks etc see www.experiencewinton.com.au/visitor-information-centre
Longreach good
free camp at Apex Riverside Park aka
Longreach Waterhole is reached from the Landsborough Hwy, about 4 km north-west of
Longreach. There’s a
toilet block, picnic tables and shelters in the adjacent day-use area, but you need to be totally self-sufficient to stay here. To get here from
Longreach, take the hwy towards
Winton, then turn east to the motorcross track; the
camping area is north, by the river.
QANTAS Museum, Stockmans Hall of Fame Cobb & Co Coach rides, Thompson River cruises.
If staying in a van park recommend you stay at
Ilfracombe Van park 28km to east. Top happy hour, roadside museum bottle house good pub etc
After that you have a choice of
Barcaldine-
Blackall-
Augathella,
Mitchell (good free
camp on river) –
Roma -
Miles or
Barcaldine-
Alpha- (possibly
Rubyvale or
Sapphire if you are into
fossicking) -
Emerald –
Springsure –
Rolleston-
Injune-
Roma-
Miles
Hope this helps you
Greg
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