Burketown & Tiranna Springs

On Saturday the 26th of June I left Leichardt Falls and headed for Burketown. The trip was uneventful, however I had done about 100km of gravel road since leaving Normanton and it was reasonably good gravel. I arrived at Burketown and as you come in to town the first thing that presents is the Burketown Bore. I stopped and had a look. Sorry about the signage. The main story about this bore is that it turned out to be to salty and was disused. It is interesting to see how much mineral deposit has built up.
The Information Centre was closed but there was an info board outside that provided some information.
I then visited the Burketown Cemetery. Another information board and some old graves but the inscriptions on the gravestones and plaques were unreadable.
Then went to the Burketown Wharf. This was an important port back in the old days as it provided much need supplies to the northern outback. It would have been interesting to see it as it was back then.
There is camping by the river but would you believe the council charges $35 per night for it and that does not include any power and water or toilets or anything? Not for me but I had a good alternative. Tiranna Springs Roadhouse is about 25km south of Burketown and on the way I was headed. They charge $12 a night unpowered with free access to washing machines. So I went there and got a load of washing done for free. That was handy because it would be some time before I got to do any more washing. It was a nice spot and I had some phone coverage. Hey come on. I know you are thinking, ‘big deal’, but this is the outback you know.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Gregory Downs and Lawn Hill National Park

Image
On Sunday the 30th of May we left Julia Creek and headed for Gregory Downs. Jan & Ross got away a bit before me as I filled a couple of jerry cans with diesel and grabbed a coffee. So then I headed off and caught up with them a hundred kilometres or so up the road when they stopped for a coffee. These plains are very flat and some would say boring. To a degree that is true but these plains are awesome at the same time. I would not choose to live here but it is great to visit it and take it in. There was no rest stop for Jan & Ross to stop at but they found this driveway to some cattle yards they could use. The whole scene was great so I am glad I got the chance to stop and take some photos. We then pushed on to the Bourke & Wills Roadhouse which is also known as Four Ways. We had been discussing whether Jan & Ross would choose to leave their van there and would come into Lawn Hill NP with me. They would take their tent and some other comforts but the idea being that t...
Read more

Mendooran & The Trip Home

Image
I wound up staying with my mate Dave at Lightning Ridge for four nights. I did not want to rush home, after all, Sydney was in lockdown with an extension of that lockdown just announced. So on Friday morning the 16th of July I said goodbye to Dave and headed off. I was going home via Walgett, Coonamble and Mendooran to the Blue Mountains. I was hoping to get a better road than you do from Walgett to Burren Junction. Well I was wrong there wasn’t I! It was a very poor road to Coonamble. It was not good beyond there until I reached Gilgandra. It improved greatly from there for the rest of the trip home. I stopped for a cuppa about 62km out from Coonamble at a rest stop. I went onto Coonamble and fueled up there and stopped at a rest stop in town for lunch. Up the road from the rest stop was this silo art mural. Very nice. The Castlereagh River runs through Coonamble and I was about to be following the Castlereagh all the way to Mendooran where I was stopping for the night. The rest...
Read more

Forsyath & Cobbald Gorge

Image
Saturday morning the 12th of June we left Einasleigh and headed for Forsyath. Before we could leave though I would have to be able to start the Landcruiser, wouldn’t I? But that did not happen did it! The batteries were partially flat. The thought that my batteries were dying had been on my mind for the last week or two. They were just over five years old. When you know your vehicle so well you detect little changes and the vehicle had not been starting with as much vigor as usual. So it came as no surprise that it would not start. So fortunately Ross was in a handy position with his van on that he could pull forward and give me a jump start. It is funny that a couple of months earlier I had to jump start Ross’s Landcruiser as his batteries had died at that time as well. Back then we were caravanning on the Murray River. So once my vehicle was started we were mobile toward Forsyath. We would be staying at the Forsyath Tourist Park for two nights on power. We were in an overflow area as...
Read more