Queensland Camps & Caravan Sites

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All travel destinations & experiences in QLD

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Winton – Age of Dinosaurs – QLD

The main event in Winton was the Age of Dinosaurs museum, a 4 hour tour of fossil preparation, specimens, a movie and a buggy ride out to the new dinosaur footprints. A great day out to see the process of

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Winton – Bladensburg Homestead – QLD

We visited the old Bladensburg Homestead that has been preserved since the early 1900’s. Some great artifacts within the many original buildings, including a fossil you could touch through the case, old bottles, combs, books and furniture. This is one

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Winton – Storm – QLD

One morning we woke to a storm building so we raced out to the National Park to watch the show, there was lightning and a rainbow at the same time, so cool to watch. #winton #wintonstorm https://youtu.be/eNtarocaYQA

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Winton – QLD

Winton, the dinosaur capital of Australia. Our first stop in town was the big WINTON sign with the caravan. Next stop catching up on washing & the town pool! The heat in Winton was around 40 each day, not cooling

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Flashback to Longreach 2011 – QLD

There was in interesting coincidence at Longreach; David and I stayed here in 2011 on our first trip around Australia in our little Coromal Caravan and we blew a tire valve stem in the free camp. We turn up today

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Qantas – Longreach – QLD

We didn’t make it into the Qantas museum this trip, the kids had reached their daily limit of new information so we’ll catch this place next time through. We did get a few photos out front and get to see

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Longreach RSL – QLD

Want to eat out with kids in Longreach? Then the RSL club is the place to go. They have a kids play space with toys, a big kids Playstation room and activity packs for the table, winning! The kids menu

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Longreach Apex Park Donation Camp – QLD

In Longreach we stayed at a $5 donation camp full of roosters and brolgas. There were flushing toilets, a river, and fires in above ground pits allowed. The roosters and chickens were good fun until 3am – 6am. We were

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Barcaldine – QLD

We stopped in at Barcaldine for lunch and to checkout the town where my mum was born. We saw the Tree of Knowledge where the Labour Party was formed during a sheerer’s strike in 1891. The tree was 200 years

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Sapphire Caravan Park – QLD

We had a great stay at the caravan park in Sapphire, they were friendly new owners and the park had everything we needed. The number one was a shaded pool to cool down each day. They have great communal areas

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Policemans Knob – QLD

The oldest known volcanic basalt plug in the world, makes a great place to view sunrise or sunset in the area. It’s located 15 minutes from Sapphire. A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck or lava neck, is a

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Fossicking – QLD

We head out to a place called Washpool to try our hand at finding sapphires out in the bush. We only found a few tiny ones, but loved scratching around in the dirt. #fossicking https://youtu.be/AYURPF5nZLY

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Pat’s Gems – Gemfields – QLD

We had a great morning at Pat’s Gems learning how to sieve sapphire wash, and identify the gems verses rocks. The kids enjoyed the whole experience, its a great setup for families, there’s a café, sandpit for little ones, and

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The Gem Fields – QLD

We spent a great 3 days in the Gemfields Sapphire & Rubyvale. We joined an underground mine tour with Heritage Mines, learned to sieve for Sapphires at Pats Gems, tried our hand out on the fields to find our own

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Springsure – QLD – Lunch Stop

A good stop from Carnarvon to Emerald is the Springsure Rest area (Virgin Rock). There’s room to park vans, toilets, cool mountains to look at and sometimes a food van. We grabbed some ice-creams, a dorky family photo and we

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Mickey Creek Gorge walk – QLD

Our last walk in Carnarvon National Park was the Mickey Creek Gorge, a cool narrow Gorge that’s about 3km return. The kids loved rock hopping through the walk way. This was the easiest and most impressive area of Carnarvon. #mickeycreekgorge

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