The beach at Rollingstone

Relaxing At Rollingstone

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August 15th 2009
After we left the caravan park at Charters Towers, we drove into town to have another look around. I like it there, the old Queenslander houses with their wide bull-nosed verandahs and the solid Victorian buildings from the time Charters Towers was a very wealthy town in the gold rush days. Now, I think it's a cattle town - I certainly saw a lot of big hats and boots around town! We drove on to ... 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