We left Muttaburra after a cool night. We retreated to the van after dinner as the cool breeze was to much for these koalas to bear. We tailed a cattle roadtrain out of Muttaburra down to Aramac where we had morning tea and inspected the white bull (yeah its a load of bull, just another tourist drawcard)
From Aramac we continued down to Barcaldine to check out one the shrines of Australian workers’ rights, the Tree of Knowledge (or rather the art installation that replaced the tree after it was poisoned by some clown in 2006). It’s the location where the shearers formed the Australian Workers Union and all enrolled to vote, forming the foundations for the Australian Labor Party in 1891.
We hit the local bakery to try out their vanilla slices and I reckon this one would beat even Bob Bentley – no way of stopping your fingers getting sticky on this one – to much icing and oozing custard. From there it was back on to the road and returned to Blackall to camp at the Barcoo River Campsite. We walked up the street to do some grocery shopping before settling back into the camp. We’ll head down to Charleville via Auguthella tomorrow after a quick look around the points of interest here.