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Adventure Way
Just over 1,000km from Adelaide lies Innamincka which is just a short distance to the Queensland border.
On the way from Innamincka to Thargomindah, why not take a detour to the ‘Dig Tree’ on Nappa Merrie Station. It was near here that the Burke and Wills Expedition ended in tragedy.
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At Thargomindah you can visit the huge hydro-electric power plant and Leahy House, once home to the cattle king, Sir Sydney Kidman. Then, along the way northwards you can take a turn-off to the Lake Bindegolly National Park, wetland home to many species of birds. Next, you’ll pass through the town of Eulo, where you can check out the opals or why not try a session at the Artesian Mud Baths?
In Cunnamulla, an oasis on the Warrego River, you can visit the Cunnamulla Fella Centre and the Art Gallery and Museum Heritage Exhibition.
Now in cattle country and tracing the journeys of the stagecoaches of Cobb and Co, as you have been much of the way, you will travel across the plains to St George. On the Balonne River, St George, known as the inland fishing capital of Australia, offers plenty to anglers.
From St George you’ll travel on to Dalby and then to Toowoomba and the Darling Downs. You’re now in cotton country. Down the steep slope of the Great Divide from Toowoomba to the fertile Lockyer Valley and from there on to Brisbane.
