Belyando Crossing Qld July 16, 2024

Belyando Crossing is a road-house, a fleabite on the side of the road from Emerald to Charters Towers. Normally we’d keep going, but this year we are trying to do smaller hops, only 270km to be more exact. The road is a shocker. Judy described it as ‘lumpy’ and this fits it perfectly. You rock and roll and get tossed around and finally you drop to 70 kph to let it settle down, but then it goes smooth again so you get back up to speed and then it all turns to wild-mouse territory again.

We have stopped here for coffee and toilets a few times, it looks a bit of a fright from the road but is clean and basic. Caravan parking is weird... it’s just two, or three or even four  lines. you just stop, nose to tail and that’s that. At least being the first one means we can't be parked in. They even have power and water, well, a dribble from a tap, but hey, that’s OK.

And if we needed justification for keeping one Telstra mobile phone, this is it. There isn’t anything else. 

Here’s us parked up in all our glory:

Belyando Crossing Roadhouse. Belyando Crossing, Qld

The photo is a bit deceptive, there are rows and rows of “dongas”, must be a hundred or so. probably put in for when the mines get busy, or when they send teams out to rebuild the road..

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