Bedourie - Birdsville
Birdsville Race Track
Burke River
Thousands and thousands of campers for the Big Red Bash...... get us out of here!!!!!
The old Birdsville pub
Birdsville Pub overflowing - 1 days supply of beer left after the Big Red Bash...
No flour left at the Bakery.
Stop for lunch at Carcory Homestead Ruins
The homestead was positioned near Carcory Waterhole and the major stock route through Birdsville. It consisted of two main rooms under a hipped roof, probably used as a bedroom and a living room with a chimney, and a skillion roofed second bedroom and store forming wings to the rear. It had an awning supported by posts at the front and was built of blocks of local limestone rendered inside and out. A stone store and kitchen were also built to the west of the house.
Around the turn of the century, Sidney Kidman, a pastoralist of humble beginnings who by 1890 owned stations stretching from the Gulf of Carpentaria almost to Adelaide, took up the Carcory Run, comprising one thousand square miles. Between 1900 and 1903, the region suffered severe drought conditions and the entire stock of 4000 bullocks perished. After visiting the station in 1902, Kidman decided to close it down, reputedly allowing the mailman to reside in the homestead for eighteen months. When Kidman returned, the place was abandoned and without a roof. The contents were then removed to Annandale Station. - Australian Heritage e-portal
Around the turn of the century, Sidney Kidman, a pastoralist of humble beginnings who by 1890 owned stations stretching from the Gulf of Carpentaria almost to Adelaide, took up the Carcory Run, comprising one thousand square miles. Between 1900 and 1903, the region suffered severe drought conditions and the entire stock of 4000 bullocks perished. After visiting the station in 1902, Kidman decided to close it down, reputedly allowing the mailman to reside in the homestead for eighteen months. When Kidman returned, the place was abandoned and without a roof. The contents were then removed to Annandale Station. - Australian Heritage e-portal
> We left Bedourie about 9.00am and headed towards Birdsville. Hoping that all the people for The Big Red Bash was finished. But, it wasn't. OMG there were people everywhere. The Bakery had run out of flour, the pub only had one more days worth of beer and the unleaded fuel was non existent. Diesel had only just arrived an hour or so before we arrived. We hi-tailed it out of there and have camped on a billabong just outside of the ghost town of Betoota.
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> The drive has been amazing today. We've gone through water, green hills and over sand dunes with amazing views. They've had lovely rain out this way and it's great to see the green tinge.
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> We've touched on the edge of the Simpson Desert and the Sturt Stony Desert.
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> Having spuds wrapped in alfoil cooked in the camp fire then spread with garlic butter with lamb chops for tea.
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