Barcaldine Qld July 13th 2024
Barcaldine Qld July 13th 2024 Parkrunned this morning in the Graham Andrews Parkland park in town. Three laps of a sort of figure eight course, dead flat and nice enough scenery around the park. Back at the van by 8am, a quick breakfast and out onto the highway for our first ‘big’ day of 400+ kms to Barcaldine. Road was mostly ok interspersed with lots of rough patches, but altogether not a bad run. Stopped at Tambo, a handy 200km up the road for a cuppa and cake at Fanny Mae's cafe, then back to it to finish up in Barky, as they call it, by mid afternoon. Horse Head sculpture. Fanny Mae's cafe, Tambo Qld This town, on a Saturday afternoon is a dead as it is possible to be without having the last rites read over its inert body. Once a bustling place and famous in its own lunch-time as being the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party. It is now totally moribund. We found one hotel and one shop open. If it wasn’t for the five or so caravan parks, it would have been procl...