Chillagoe limestone caves

Limestone caves at Chillagoe

This is the remains of a old lead smelter- beside a barraged river. There were thousands of bricks used in this building.

Chillagoe

Is it a hotel or a post office?

Chillagoe

Chillagoe rock formation

Captain Trevdog "Now boarding"

Marines plane at the air museum

Mareeba Airport

Old plane from World War II

Looking over Atherton from the lookout

Atherden

Looking down over Atherden - on the tablelands

Lava Caves

Undara Lave Caves

These are lava tubes, hollow shells after the lava flow continued, 27 kilometres in all, broken or fallen in as this picture shos

Lava caves

Just a little rest - for five minutes then its off to visit the caves

Undara Lava Caves - these rail carriages are the accomodation here. The caves are fabulous

MtSurprise Hotel

At the Thirst Aid Post - it is as close to nursing as I've been.

A old large gold stamper at Croydon

Croydon Museum

Black Bull Siding - Overlander Train from Normanton to Croydon passes through ths siding. There is free camping here also - we stopped for morning tea .

Karumba

Ore ship coming into the river to be loaded with lead - actually a barge ship which takes the ore out into the Gulf for loading into a bigger ship

Karumba

Looking up the river to the river mouth and out into the Gulf

Karumba

Karumba - looking into the Gulf of Carpenteria. We stayed here for four days it was absolutley beautiful, but still no fish, this time the moon was wrong!

Burke and Wills Roadhouse

Three road trains leaving the roadhouse loaded with cattle

Karumba

Horseman bringing cattle into Karumba for live export

Normanton - another train from the olden days

Normanton Railway Station

A spot of sewing while Trev is not looking. This is where the GulfLander train leaves each Wednesday and takes tourists to Croydon and back the next day.

Cloncurry

Cloncurry

Cloncurry - Trev driving!

Mt Isa at night from the lookout. 30 deg at 8.30pm very nice

Mt Isa

Mt Isa mine in the middle of the town

Gill and Sue aren't you glad we nurse now not then

Carmel being a nurse down the tunnels

Mt Isa's underground hospital

This hospital was set up incase of need during the war, but was never used.

Mt Isa

Our first jobs - tour guides at Mt Isa yeh right!

Queensland Hurrah hurrah

Yes we have finally got to Qld - but boy it is still HOT. Trev says"Dry your eyes princess" Nice that he is sooo understanding hey.

Mataranka

Hot springs at Mataranka

This is the rig! still as good as ever

Oops missed the runway at Daly Waters

Daly Waters

Trev at the pub - as usual

Bums atDaly Waters

Self explanatory

Daly Waters Pub

The bar at Daly Waters Pub, the whole pub is filled with what ever, one wall contains money from all over the world, another t shirts out the back is a thong tree - feet thongs!

This how to catch a barra

Mataranka

This is the homesstead reconstructed for the film "We of the Never Never" at Mataranka where we stayedat the hot springs. Really nice springs really smelly bats.

Little Roper River stream

If you look upstream - see the snake hanging from the tree actually its a leaf but I thought it looked like a snake!

Rock - stone face ridge

Stone face (rock wall) which runs along and into Arnhem Land.

Jim Jim Falls

Walking back through the shade from Jim Jim Falls

A beautiful swimming spot at Jim Jim Falls, there was no waterfall but hey it was all the pool!

Jim Jim Falls

A beautiful walk for the first part into the falls but then it was a climb over huge boulders at 2.30pm and 40 degs but at the end was great swimming hole

Twin Falls

It would be nice to see the falls when there was more water flowing - just a reason to come back again