After one night in Brisbane we headed out west to Ipswich then to Toowoomba, after stocking up with goodies in Toowoomba we headed off towards Roma, then north to Emerald.
Thirty years ago Roma was just a little one horse town, but, now with a lot of mining going on it has come to life as with most towns in the area everything is booming.
Our Plan was to head to Longreach and take in Carnarvon Gorge en route, I had been past Carnarvon Gorge turn off about 30 years earlier, but, because we were the scout vehicle in a Military convoy. One could not just wonder off so I had never been in to see the actual gorge.
The road into the Gorge was good except for the last 19 k, and with a lot of traffic heading out to the area, the road was in a real bad state.
The Gorge has some very interesting sights, it is a 9 klm bush walk out and 9 klm walk back. We started our walk at about 230pm in the heat of the day, as we wanted to get back well before dark . As we walked several people were coming back, one person was a woman who asked us how far we intended to go as she was interested in our wefare. We told her about another one K and she said that there was not much to see unless you walk a lot more distance. On walking a little further and decided we better return a I was starting to get a little weary after my hospital stay a couple of months ago.
We have been to the Grand Canyon twice and were pretty sure that the Carnarvon Gorge would be no match. but, it would have been nice to walk the 18k. and take it all in.
From the Gorge we headed to Emerald to stay for the night.
After one night in Brisbane we headed out west to Ipswich then to Toowoomba, after stocking up with goodies in Toowoomba we headed off towards Roma, then north to Emerald.
Thirty years ago Roma was just a little one horse town, but, now with a lot of mining going on it has come to life as with most towns in the area everything is booming.
Our Plan was to head to Longreach and take in Carnarvon Gorge en route, I had been past Carnarvon Gorge turn off about 30 years earlier, but, because we were the scout vehicle in a Military convoy. One could not just wonder off so I had never been in to see the actual gorge.
The road into the Gorge was good except for the last 19 k, and with a lot of traffic heading out to the area, the road was in a real bad state.
The Gorge has some very interesting sights, it is a 9 klm bush walk out and 9 klm walk back. We started our walk at about 230pm in the heat of the day, as we wanted to get back well before dark . As we walked several people were coming back, one person was a woman who asked us how far we intended to go as she was interested in our wefare. We told her about another one K and she said that there was not much to see unless you walk a lot more distance. On walking a little further and decided we better return a I was starting to get a little weary after my hospital stay a couple of months ago.
We have been to the Grand Canyon twice and were pretty sure that the Carnarvon Gorge would be no match. but, it would have been nice to walk the 18k. and take it all in.
From the Gorge we headed to Emerald to stay for the night.
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| Boab Trees in Roma |
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| Roma |
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| Shop front Roma |
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| Birds in Cherry Boys back yard |
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| a town called Injune north of Roma |
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| I'm off to Maccas next week |
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| Carnarvon Gorge |
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| Aircraft crash site |
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| Crash site |
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| Cattle being driven by Drovers |
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| Drovers |
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