Burdekin Wier Charters Towers

Charters Towers, Townsville and everything

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May 24th 2010
Sorry this took a long time to put together due to one too many single malt whiskeys, all will be revealed. On leaving Airlie Beach we decide to free camp at Home Hill - a much recommended site, we had heard so much about it. The camp site, or to be more precise, camp street, runs parallel with the Bruce Highway on one side and the railway line on the other, how peaceful! Not really anything to d ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more