Blackall

2024 The Big Lap, Queensland 1 Minute

28th May 2024

Distance: 415 Km

Fuel: 50 L

After breakfast I drove into Winton to get bread from the local bakery, they had fresh sliced wholemeal loaves which looked very nice and cost only a little more than Woollies own brand so I was pleased with that.

Set off about 8am for a reasonable drive to Blackall.

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Stopped briefly in Longreach for a short rest at the Qantas Museum, didn’t go in,  have been a couple of times before and the display never changes so took a photo of the planes outside (no better than HARS in Shellharbour.

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Next stop was Ilfracombe and their Machinery Mile, they keep the display nicely painted – no rusting hulks.

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Drove through Barcaldine but drew a line at the seeing the Tree of Knowledge, the founding place of the Australian Labor Party, the road south turned off before you got there.

Arrived in Blackall about 1.30pm, soon found the caravan park and checked in before going on a tour of the town and buying fuel. Another town I had forgotten I have stayed at in the past.

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I retired many years ago and in my dotage I like to travel fairly regularly, usually with my teardrop trailer but also overseas. I love traveling Australia, the country is so beautiful and always changing, I prefer the outback to the coast.

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