Cloncurry
After camping at Chinamans Creek ( or wherever we did camp), we find ourselves in Cloncurry. It was planned ( when writing this blog ) that we would spend the morning at the Kathleen Memorial Park Museum, where they were having a Burke and Wills exhibit and display. On show was Burkes water bottle and one of the original journals written by his men. HOWEVER, all these items are now returned to Canberra's Museum, so we'll just push on to our next stop.I want to thank JEFF and JULIE for the use of their photo of Burkes Water bottle ( as I copied it from their blog ), and had so much fun reading their adventures.
Cloncurry to Karumba
Day 13, and after NOT seeing the Burke and Wills treasures at the museum, we have a neet 420klm ride on excellent bitumen road all the way to our final destination. 420klm is too far for any of our bikes but we don't need to carry extra fuel as the 4 WAYS ROADHOUSE will top us up just fine.
4ways roadhouse
183 klms from Cloncurry we get fuel at 4 Ways Roadhouse, better known as BURKE AND WILLS ROADHOUSE. As mentioned before the road is in excellent form, and sitting on 100klm per hour is as easy as walking in the park.
Road House Attendant
4 Ways Roadhouse is run by the only daughter of the former local copper. Although he's now retired and helps her out at 4 Ways Roadhouse, its mostly his daughter ( pictured above ) that runs the station.
Burke Developement road.
Again using Google Maps, I was able to track the condition of the road from Cloncurry all the way to Karumba... This is what our road will look like. Piece of Cake.
Rudie Creek
60 klm past 4 Ways on the left is the "Spring Creek" Turnoff. Not shown on dated maps, this little creek seems to be a hotspot for hippies. I'm told there are some folk camping here for more than 4 years! And why wouldn’t they? They make their own bread, catch their own fish and yabbies, and share all they have with visitors. There’s a very strict NO ALCOHOL policy, but somehow I think dope is permitted, perhaps even celebrated! BUT and there’s always a BUT, these folk tend to party rather late, so it seems a good night’s sleep may not be possible I’m warned.
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