Crowdy Bay National Park, accessed from Harrington in NSW, offering beach camping, picnic areas, fishing, and walking tracks. Crowdy Bay National Park runs along the coast up to Dunbogan and Camden Head. Campground for tent sites (parking beside), turnoff junction is 1.8km from entrance, picnic tables, toilets, walking trail to beach. Abbey Creek picnic area, … Read more
Views over the Manning River entrance with the break wall and the Harrington township.
A beautiful campground set in the dramatic sandstone cliffs in the Wolgan Valley. This location is the 2WD accessible campground at Newnes with another 4WD accessible campground across the river. The historical Newnes Oil Shale Mining Town is mainly over the river. A walk takes you through the old ghost town and the remnants of … Read more
In 1906, the Newnes township and shale oil mining complex was established, extracting low-grade oil from shale. The Newnes mining complex ceased operations and restarted until 1931 when it last ceased. Newnes was named after Sir George Newnes, who was one of the principle directors of the Commonwealth Oil Corporation Limitied. Over the range is … Read more
Bicentennial tribute to the Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi People, built in 1988. It was designed and financed by Dr David Harbey Sutton with the support of the Mitakoodi Aboriginal Corporation.
The Burke and Wills Memorial located near Cloncurry in Outback Queensland, is a cairn in commemoration of the expedition of Burke and Wills. They crossed the part of Queensland on 22nd of January in 1861.
Burke and Wills Dig Tree stands on the bank of Cooper Creek in far south-western Queensland’s Bulloo Shire. The Dig Tree is one of three significant trees, the other two being the Face Tree and Brahé’s Tree. There is a conservation fee of $20 per vehicle to visit the Dig Tree. It is not included … Read more
The Burke and Wills Tree at Birdsville was marked as part of the Burke and Wills expedition in the 1800s, located around 3 kilometers from Birdsville. Local history records that this Coolibah Tree, on the banks of the Diamantina River bears the marking BW-C76 1860. It is one of their final campsites before reaching the … Read more
