Then we left around 9.30am with the next stop at Quamby where we had photographed a derelict hotel a few years ago.
The present owners bought it & brought it up to the way it originally was as a hotel. It was a Cobb & Co staging place in the early days.
Opened late last year & is now on the market for sale!
Quamby also had a very early railway for the mines…Then 50kms to Cloncurry & were here for lunch.
Tonight we are in a Council provided freedom camp. There is an adjoining Chinese cemetary.
Ken went for a walk to the Cloncurry River & took the above photos.
Cloncurry lays claim to be the birthplace of Qantas as 2 guys sat near the dry Cloncurry River bed in 1919 and came up with the idea of starting an airline. Qantas was the result.
Tomorrow we are moving towards Winton & will camp along the road.
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