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20260724 Qld Tambo to Augathella

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20260724 Another one of those friendly towns on our path towards home, Tambo where we once broke down and had to sit in the garage driveway for a week waiting for parts to arrive but this time I’m here to have my hair dyed. Once I arrived we realised I’m missing a product and couldn’t use my own dyes but the hair dresser sorted it out and I left minus the grey strip. We parked down a side street near the park where we cooked dinner before going to the Chicken Race at the Royal Carrangarra Hotel. The idea is too raise as much money as possible for different charities by betting on a chicken and the highest bidder wins that chicken, once all the chicken have been sold the race begins and the first chicken across the line is the winner and the owner wins the kitty. The last time here we had lots of fun but this time it dragged out and the drinks were very expensive, so after the race we left. Some people were betting $300 and up, let the race begin.  The Johnson Brothers Transport, a ...
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20260720 Qld Blackall

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20260720 Here we are again on the Barcoo R iver and someone’s in our usual spot, but we were nice and let them stay. Out come the yabbie pots and off he goes walking through the bush to his secret spot. A couple camped near the river said it was too stagnate to catch yabbies but in he goes anyway. After a couple of hours he’s off to check his pot, a bit embarrassed when he returns with two tiny yabbies showing the campers who Promptly walked off and returned with a huge mud crab. Here mate I have a freezer full of them as he proceeds telling Des the tale of tubs they caught in Darwin, then out comes the photos, and Des was certainly impressed. Des returned home yelling Lee, look what I caught holding up a mud crab in a sealed plastic bag, ya sure, so you caught it in the plastic bag, 😂.  We meet Lee-Ann and Rodger for a few drinks even though Lee-Ann doesn’t drink any more but she makes up for it with many a good old yarns and lots of laughs. Off he goes with his trusty compa...
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Location: Blackall QLD 4472, Australia
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20260717 Qld Alpha to Jericho

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20260717 One of the many towns we've visited in the past and who history goes back to 1863 when it was established as a service town for railway construction workers, just like all the other small towns these days We found showers at the Showgrounds in Alpha then Des took advantage of the surroundings and washed the bugs from the van. He was going to leave for Jericho but it was getting late so we camped in the free camp in Alpha that also has showers. The town hasn’t changed since the last time we were here, the town still has no Pub the butcher is closed and there’s a small SPAR for supplies and an information centre that sells home made items. I found this one mural on the closed butchers shop wall, its a tribute to the Brahman Breed, no thats appropriate for a butchers shop.  These are scrap metal sculptures of a bull, a cow named "Daisy," and a calf named "Snowflake" located in Alpha, Queensland. The Golden Wattle dominate this strip of road, it’s actually ...
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Location: Alpha QLD, Australia
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20260712 Qld Capella, Emerald to Alpha

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20260712 So here we are in the town of Capella and it looks pleasant enough, there’s a free camp opposite the Hotel and you can use the hotels washing machines, so on goes the washing while we wonder to the pub for a quick bit to eat and watch a bit of the boring UFC world champion that lasted 52 seconds, now thats the sort of match I like to watch, over and done with in under a minute.  Capella is only 50km north of Emerald on the Gregory Highway, it was founded in the 1860s as a pastoral outpost to a booming agricultural and of cause a mining town. It amazes me how these small town’s keep going with just a pub and a small convenience store not to mention, the amazing memorial's they have on display. It was after WW11, grazing land was converted for broadacre grain production but due to poor seasons it was unsuccessful, but it paved the way for sorghum and sunflower cultivation. Then in 1979 the mining boom hit and the Gregory coal mine was opened transforming Capella into a bustl...
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Location: Capella QLD 4723, Australia
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