Beyond the Black Stump

Yesterday we were able to walk to the Stockmans Hall Of Fame from our caravan park and we enjoyed  the many displays all set out in a lovely building. This is the stockman statue outside the Hall with the building in the background.

            

And this is an amazing sculpture of a horse - some people are so clever!

        

In the afternoon Darryl and Dennis visited the Qantas museum and enjoyed that - while Tops and I enjoyed a quiet afternoon catching up on jobs and relaxing in the spa.

        

This morning we packed up again and left Longreach and this time left the bitumen - and the traffic  - and drove through some great station country. Tops described it as a no plate road as no plates broke this time! There is a bit of dust in her cupboards though! We drew the short straw and followed Dennis's clouds of dust but the Ultimate is dust free! We had morning tea at a place called Muttaburra - a great country town with most inhabitants very curious about us!

       

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This is as tough as the sheep have to be out here! Iron tough! It is made from all bits and pieces - amazing! Look at the sheeps face -complimented by an ear tag from the artists family farm.

        

We saw a camel in the wild too -this time not in a truck!

           

After our trek through the very dry station areas, we came to this oasis on the Tower Hill Creek which is very picturesque and a haven for birds so Darryl's pretty excited! The creek is a series of waterholes at the moment but is so pretty and we'd love to see all this area when the rivers run! This creek runs into the Thompson River then into the Cooper Creek and on into Lake Eyre - it's some water system! 

        

 We are set up at this place called Kooroorinya Falls - quite different but very friendly caretakers and next to the creek it's lovely. After being in a caravan park with hundreds of people, tonight it's just us - does it get any better than this?? 

        

We now will head for Charters Towers and then Townsville so will be leaving the outback behind for a while! We really could stay in this spot for longer but Cape York beckons! We've travelled over 2,000km since leaving home so haven't done too badly.

Till the next blog, (I have to be able to publish this one yet once we hit civilisation) love from us travellers xxxxxxxxx