Charleville
Charleville is your quintessential outback town, John and I
have been here three times now and always enjoy discovering new things to do.
This time it was the tour of the Hotel Corones, a very large and beautiful
hotel that we had been to see but hadn’t done the interesting tour. There is a
lot of history on the man who owned the hotel, Harry Corones. He was a Greek immigrant who arrived in
Australia penniless and went on to buying an old hotel, renovating it and
hosting famous visitors, including the American pilot, Amy Johnson. We had very
interesting afternoon, with tea and scones at the end.
Campfire dinner
Bailey Bar caravan park is very popular, the
camp oven dinner was on on Sunday night.
The menu is delicious, beef and red wine stew with mashed potatoes. Dessert is apple charlotte and custard,
followed by billy tea. It’s very
pleasant sitting around the camp fire with like minded people, traveling our country just as we are.
Beef stew
The park is $34 per night for a powered site. We expect to
pay this as it is high season in these parts.
Hotel Corones.
There is a Bilby experience at night that we have been to
before and its well worth seeing. The bilby is an endangered animal, the
Queensland government have an on going
programme where the bilbies are
released in a safe location after spending time in Charleville. The location is
a large area of land protected from predators, some where in far western
Queensland, I think.
Another attraction in Charleville is the Cosmos Centre. I
found it an interesting experience, star gazing on a clear cold night. I was happy that I had been on a previous
visit as there was a lot of cloud around this time.
There are a few shops in Charleville worth visiting and a
lovely bakery that serves coffee and the nicest mini chocolate eclairs.
The Flying Doctor is based here and it has a visitor centre
with interesting information on the history of the service.
22nd July.
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