Some of the best Queensland country towns can be found along the Warrego Highway running between Charleville and Toowoomba. After we had spent three days exploring the wondrous Carnarvon Gorge we drove along the Great Inland Way to Roma. The drive took us through the rugged sandstone ranges with turnoffs to the Nuga Nuga National…
One of our bucket list items for the past ten years or more has been exploring Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland’s Central Highlands. Highlands you might ask? Yes these do exist in Outback Queensland and they cover an area of around 60,000 square kilometres, making it just short of the size of Tasmania. We spent three…
Very aptly called ‘The Sunshine State’, Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. But more importantly Queensland is a state of excitement! Queensland has an…
We finally crossed the Northern Territory border into Outback Queensland, on day 167 of our travel around Australia in 185 days. Just across the border we reached the town of Camooweal, where we had heard about a great free camping spot on the Georgina Billabong. We arrived at around lunch time and found a fantastic…
I have asked nine other Queensland travel bloggers for their opinions of what they love about Queensland, and believe me there is a lot to love!
Mount Isa, or “Isa” as it known by its locals, is an iconic Australian mining town which is dominated by the sprawling Mount Isa Mine with its 270m exhaust stack from the lead smelter.
The state that I call home, Queensland, is the second largest in Australia,covers an area of 1,852,642 km2 and is situated on the Coral Sea to the north and Pacific Ocean to the east.
We crossed the border into our home state of Queensland after leaving Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The countryside was stark and barren with wide expanses of flat plains with little vegetation and a roadside that was littered with dead Kangaroos. Discovering Outback Queensland was a revelation. We found it to be largely affected…