Category: 2020 Queensland

We had a day in Cooktown when we were living in Innisfail. That was for the centenary of the arrival of the Augustinians in Cooktown in 1884. We flew from Cairns with a parish group, visited the cemetery where some Augustinians were buried, ate lunch, visited a museum, and flew back to Cairns. We hoped to see a little more...

Most of what we did today could have been done independently. Having it all packaged up with no need to drive and access to local knowledge persuaded us to take our day tour with Daintree Discovery Tours. They were not the only option but seemed to offer the best coverage of what we might want to see and do. We...

I know well from many years of travelling with Majella that once we turn toward home there is no holding her. I had thought of deviating on our way from Charleville to Toowoomba but realised there would be no chance of holding her so our plan was set. True to form for a day when we were heading for home,...

We might have found a shorter, quicker way home from Hughenden, even via Barcaldine, but neither of us had ever been to Charleville or the towns along the way so it seemed an obvious inclusion in the itinerary. Staying there resulted in a relatively short day of driving today and a longer one tomorrow. As usual we were up around...

My itinerary for today had been planned around picking up another part of the Dinosaur Trail suggested itinerary by driving east to Prairie and then south via Kooroorinya Falls and Muttaburra to Barcaldine. I was aware that the road from Prairie to Muttaburra was gravel and, after our excursion to Lark Quarry, I did a little more research on road...

The Dinosaur Trail suggested itinerary included Porcupine Gorge National Park as the highlight of its second day around Hughenden. That fitted well with Majella’s 2020 project to visit 20 National Parks that we have not visited previously. The video we saw at the Flinders Discovery Centre on Sunday piqued our interest as it explained the many geological layers that are...

Because Richmond is only 114 km from Hughenden we opted to book 3 nights in Hughenden and tackle Richmond, the third apex of the Dinosaur Trail triangle, as a day trip. When I booked our passes online it seemed that COVID required booking specific times so I had opted for an 11:00 am slot at Kronosaurus Korner. That would allow...