Author: Ralph & Linda

5th August, Tuesday We left Mission Beach in the pouring rain.  Thankfully we didn’t have any more mountains passes to tackle, it wouldn’t have b...

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Mission Beach to Winton

History (wikipedia) In the early 20th century Chinese banana farmers employed Aborigines as labourers in the Tully River region. Opium addiction and c...

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Mission Beach

Cooktown (wikipedia) is a small town and locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. At the time of the 2011 census, Cooktown had a populati...

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Cooktown

Port Douglas (wikipedia) is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately 70 km (40 mi) north of Cairns. Its permanent population was 3,2...

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Port Douglas/Mossman

The Atherton Tableland (wikipedia) is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It is located west to sout...

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Atherton Tableland

Georgetown (wikipedia) is a town on the Etheridge River in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Gulf Developmental Road passes through the town, linki...

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Georgtown

Normanton (wikipedia) is a small cattle town in the Gulf Country region of northwest Queensland, Australia, just south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, on ...

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Normanton

History of Cloncurry (Wikipedia) is a town situated in the north-west of Queensland, Australia, 770 kilometres west of the city of Townsville via th...

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Cloncurry

Mount Isa (Wikipedia) is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. It came into existence because of the vast mineral deposits fou...

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Tennent Creek to Mount Isa

26th June Thursday We eventually got out of Darwin and are heading towards Tennant creek.  We stopped off at Pine Creek to let Hugo out and have a lo...

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Darwin to Tennent Creek