Longreach Waters

Day 135 to 138 - at Longreach Waters

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August 12th 2015
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 tu ... 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