After a dip in the Mataranka Hot Springs, we headed further south with a plan to find and investigate Longreach Waters, a huge long waterhole (a couple of kilometres maybe). This place had been separately recommended to us twice previously as a bird watchers paradise. We were keen to check it out. We were told that Longreach Waters was approximately ten kilometres down a sandy track with the turnoff just near Elliot. We eventually made it to Elliot and the turnoff is indeed right on the cattle grid on the northern side of the town. The track is sometimes a bit corrugated but was very sandy in a few places which might be tricky in a big heavy bus. However, we managed to navigate through the sandy patches OK and eventually arrived to a lovely stretch
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