Adventure Way, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Adventure Way takes you from Brisbane to Adelaide via Queensland's richest grain and cotton producing area surrounding Dalby. It travels through Brigalow and belah belts to the outback plains where mulga lines the road and eventually gives way to a treeless gibber landscape at the Queensland, South Australia border.
From Innamincka, follow the historic Strzelecki Track to the Flinders Rang ...
Bulloo Development Road, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Burke and Wills Dig Tree is one of Australia's National icons and an enduring reminder of the pioneering spirit and extreme harshness of the Outback. Nappa Merrie Station is proud to officially manage the site on behalf of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Located on the northern bank of Cooper Creek, the Dig Tree is a Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtha).
In 1898 John Dick car ...
Bulloo Developmental Road, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Cameron Corner loop is an ideal way to experience the real Outback. This journey will leave you breathless, passing through open gibber plains where you can see for miles to sandy undulating land. The Cameron Corner loop offers contrasting landscapes and experiences. You can discover the history of the early pioneers, enjoy the wildlife, fish in the Cooper or simply relax and absorb the Spirit ...
Dowling Track, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Dowling Track - a journey of discovery.
Travel in the footsteps of Vincent James Dowling and other early pioneers over 100 years ago discovered this area, known as the "Plains of Promise"- people travelled the track looking for a new life and new opportunities.
The Australian author, Henry Lawson walked from Bourke to Hungerford and back in the hellish summer heat looking for work.
Th ...
Thargomindah Hungerford Road, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Eulo - Hungerford - Thargomindah Four Wheel Driving Track is 280 kilometres long and takes approximately two days to complete. Highlights include: Currawinya National Park, Paroo River, Bulloo River, Palm Grove Date Farm and Winery and the Wild Dog Fence. Travelling through Mulga scrub, swamplands and wildflowers in season, this road provides opportunities for bushwalking, camping fishing bird ...
Gilmour Street, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Hydro Power Plant is the first in Australia and third in the World! In 1891 drilling commenced on a bore to supply the town with water and in 1893 an exceptionally good supply was struck at 795 metres (2650 feet) with the water at 84 degrees Celsius.
Thargomindah was the first town to have reticulated Artesian Bore water. The bore was the source of energy for Australia's first hydr ...
Lake Bindegolly National Park, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
This track allows walkers to get close to Lake Bindegolly as it skirts the edge of the waterway then retreats to scrub-covered sand hills.
An observation point is located at the edge of the lake for watching some of the 60 species of waterbirds that visit the park, including pelicans, swans and the rare freckled duck.
The park was established in 1991 to protect the Acacia ammophila that gr ...
Bulloo Development Road, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
Lake Bindegolly National Park is a remote but accessible park on the edge of Queensland's channel country. This park is a bird and sunset-watcher's paradise, distinguished by desert landscapes, a string of salt and freshwater lakes, thousands of waterbirds and a rare tree. Acacia ammophila, a large gidgee-like tree with golden flowers clustered in balls, grows along sand dunes fringing the eastern ...
Dowling Street, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
Leahy House was built around 1885 when a deed of grant was made to the Thargomindah Newspaper Company.
The house is built of local mud brick and was owned by Sir Sydney Kidman in the early 1900s. The Bulloo Shire Council purchased the building in 1995 and the Thargomindah Historical Society were entrusted to preserve its history.
It is now a museum, open to the public, seven days a week. ...
Eccles Street, Thargomindah, Queensland 4492, Australia
The Thargomindah Visitor Information Centre is housed in a building built from local mud brick prior to 1888 and used as a hospital until 1976, when a new hospital facility was built in Dowling Street. This original hospital building is now the Thargomindah Visitor Information Centre, open to the public all year and with its own resident ghost. Be sure to stop in and get some local information. ...
