Blogs from Bramwell Junction, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

7th June Having had a go at Palm Creek the night before and not wanting to damage the cruiser (anymore) or the camper trailer on it or Gunshot Creek on the southern part of the Overland Telegraph Line track, we instead took the Southern Bypass Road all the way up to where it crosses the OTL at Fruit Bat Falls. From here we took the track down to the falls, we had passed almost no-one on the Bypass Road and only a couple of cars coming up the Falls track, so we hoped we might have a quiet time to enjoy the falls. How wrong we were, the car park was filled with dozens of 4WD’s and close on 50 or so people, it was early in the morning and not yet very warm, so we ... read more

DAY 332 The Darkness on Bramwell Station came quickly, as if a velvet cloak had been thrown over the top end of Queensland, and everything fell silent. Only the sponge eating horse and a handful of cows wandered around in the darkness still grazing, oh and the mob on Kangaroo’s, about 10 of them silently moved around and got closer to us. The generator had long since dozed off to sleep, and the only sound was a lone cow calling in to the darkness. I walked Caroline over to the loo, just so she didn’t trip over a lone Python out hunting or some other disaster. I commented to Caroline on how silent the Station was, except for the silly cow occasionally mooing and we walked back unzipped the door and got in to bed, the ... read more