Judy & Brian Tour Oz

The road from Clermont to Charters Towers is not too bad, although there seemed to be more dead cars on the side of the road than dead roos - even though on the map it looks to be near the coast and civilisation, there's not much out here and a lot of space in between. The outback starts early in northern Queensland. This is a 375km trip and there is precisely one stop, which you may as well make the most of! Belyando Crossing Roadhouse, Qld Belyando Crossing Roadhouse, Qld 'CT' is one of our favourites. Apart from a really nice Big4 van park, it's a lovely old town, but modern enough to have lots of stuff one needs, such as screws and bolts and caravan window winders and locks and even trailer mirrors. Today is the day to fix up some of the carnage, well a few bits and pieces that have come loose and broken at least. I found 'the' hardware store and stocked up on bits and pieces, and then oddest little caravan place that had a few proper things and ...

Charters Towers Qld July 18, 2015 Another full day of travel, this time 370 km straight up from Clermont to ‘CT’, the only civilisation between them being a tiny tiny roadhouse at Belyando Crossing. The crossing, going south to north is easily missed. As we sat and ate a sandwich and sipped on instant coffee, we watched the vans we had passed do as we did, miss it completely and have to turn back down into the northern entry.  Borrowed this of the 'net. Balyando Crossing, Qld When I say no civilisation, I mean no little town or pubs or whatever, but there are plenty of stations posted on either side, including Avon Downs and Victoria Down. We seem to be on the back slope of the Great Dividing Range, it is undulating country but fast open road despite its ‘Development Road’ status in the book-of-maps. Leading up to the crossing, the big fields on either side appeared to be growing Sorghum, its russet coloured flowers looking just like mud to the driver concentrating on the ...