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Recipe: Kangaroo Tail Stew

This is an Australian Outback recipe…

The Great Australian Road Train

Respect the road train! It’s big, fast and can’t / won’t stop!

They look challenging to drive. Loaded up and going the distance they are often transporting a live load: cattle, goats, sheep.

The dust kick back will hit your windscreen. Best to keep the biggest distance you can, as they can do a lot of damage to your car, and over-take fast on a flat stretch of road.

A Few Thoughts on Dirt Tracks

The road to Tambo, on the map looked like a road. 246km or so of road to cut across country, from Springsure…. It was however, tarmac for the first 10 minutes only and then rough surfaced with random cattle grids for the following 4hours!

Worth a treck though, just to see the wild Emus, stock men on horses, free ranging cattle, even wilder Kangaroos and incredible scenery. Everything you may picture the ‘true’ Outback Australia to be. The bush looks like bush. Red dirt and no town in sight.

We passed two trucks on that entire stretch of journey.

A full tank of gas, plenty of drinking water and some food are an essential on such a trip – whilst we are with RACQ, there wasn’t any mobile network – in the event of a problem we would have been stuck there for quite a while.

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Destination: Central Outback Queensland

September, ‘tis the start of spring’ and a good month to head up north of Brisbane.

This year storms have rolled in early but with warmer weather, surf’s up, swimming is possible and Whale Watching is in full swing in Hervey Bay.

There’s a known road trip worth having a look at. It gives a taste of the outback, country and coastal towns, history and an opportunity to rejuvenate and explore.

The adventure takes anything up to two weeks… We thought this was going at a fast pace. See the journee.

Head toward Central Outback Queensland to experience:

• Gladstone’s harbour
• Rockhampton -the beef capital
• Emerald for a gem stone or two
• Typical local pubs
• Longreach – Qantas’ and the Stockman’s hall of fame
• Winton -discover the legend behind ‘Waltzing Matilda’
• Just beyond Winton is the famous Walk-About-Creek pub (home of Croc dundee) in one direction and the dinosaur stampede in another.
• Carnarvon Gorge – spot platypus and turtles, swim in fresh pools and take an Aboriginal walk to cave rock art.

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