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Burra
Travel Blogs from Burra, Australia
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back to nature...
after seeing brisbane, we decided to get away from it all for the very last time by venturing into the lamington and springbrook national parks... much more ...
Day 21 - Rest day at Burra
... his chain. My wife Veronica subsequently in a phone call asked Mark if he also flossed Milton's chain! Mark and I had a look around Burra and visited some second book shops - boy, if we had more space in our bags, there would have been some purchases. I ...
Flies, flies, everywhere
... towns called Balaklava and Auburn. We picked up some meat and potatoes for dinner and were back in the van en route to Redbanks via Burra. Just outside of Burra we took the turnoff for Redbanks and it was a bit of a dirt track. It is ...
Day 20 - Port Pirie to Burra
... in on most hills after the first four riders. But all good fun nevertheless (although I have to say I was a bit tired last night). Burra is a lovely rural town with a lot of historical buidings. Part of the town is set on the side of a hill with nice ...
Last night camp.
... lot of distance. We do though make good time and get somewhere in nowhere east of Port Augusta and north of Adelaide (outside of Burra). Its cold though. Very cold! Day 90 – Saturday 8th August 2009 It was so f^&%ing cold last ...
Home
Hoyleton is a small community in the mid - North of South Australia, a major wheat growing region, or 'God's own country' as the real estate agent described it. I'm sure that a lot of people would find this description a little confusing when seeing ...
Lamington National Park - Binna Burra
... brought us to Lamington National Park in the gold coast hinterland. We are staying for a couple of nights at the Binna Burra campsite which is surrounded by rainforest walks of varying lengths. The weather here is about 5 degrees cooler than on the ...
One Week Down Under
... of so south and could've kept on going...for days, but turned around and came back for a picnic lunch instead. In Australia, the beaches are wonderfully long and wide; they're filled with splishing and splashing; swimming and snacking; good ...
Wine Tasting at its Best!
Well...... what can I say about this. We are no experts on wine but we both like it. What a place for my first Cellar Door experiences. There is some amazing stuff up here and well worth a visit. I love it - the pace of life is very slow and there is ...
RedBanks
Happy Birthday Ben you even get an extra half an hour in your day. Departed Hattah-Kulkyne at 9:30 heading for Burra over the border crossed the Murray River a few times including the ferry at Cadell. Arrived at Redbanks at 4:30 and brushed the ...
Froze to Death
... any stock- I guess they haven't build up numbers since the drought. We stayed in a tiny mining town called Burra, once the 7th largest town in Australia!. Now the huge stone churches and town hall look out of place in a population of only about 1000. We ...
Wow - just as interesting as Morgan
... but we are keen to get over to the west coast so we decided to only stay for two nights. Burra was actually the 7th largest town in Australia in the 1850, even bigger than Brisbane. This place is so full of history and I absolutely ...
A birds paradise
... proximity to so many wild animals. Australia seems like a bird paradise full of pretty, bright colored cockatoos and parrots. Australia is the oldest continent on earth and the Flinders Range is the oldest mountain range. Geologists have the mountains ...
Xmas in the Lamington Natl. Park
24. December 2008 When the car was ready we moved south of Brisbane into the Lamington Natl. Park. Its campground is on about 850 m, quite a difference to the climate around Brisbane. They sport rainforest up there, and as usual upon our arrival it ...
Burra and Red Banks Conservation Park
... however the problems of disease and floods meant they were virtually deserted by the 1860’s. On the Friday we drove to Burra Gorge Conservation Park where we camped for the night. We followed the creek up the gorge in the afternoon, it ...
Interesting Burra
... headed down to Burra. Little towns or villages of Laura, Gladstone, Spalding are some of the oldest towns in South Australia. Countryside is very green and lush. We are familiar with Burra as it was one of our early stops on ...
Start of the Cornish experience
Burra is an old copper mining town, with many historic buildings and pretty Cornish cottages, just outside town there is the remains of an old open cut mine which we took great delight in exploring. We camped at the showgrounds on the edge of town, very ...
Red Banks Conservation Park
Red Banks Conservation Park...a great place, and home to the deadliest toilets in this world. Arachnophobes beware (although that is a somewhat redundant warning for those who know Jess), these toilets had some serious spiders in them. On the ...
Thats alot of old fossils
... up a couple of bottles (we have promised not to drink them til we get home!!) we headed out to Burra - the home of Australia's biggest mega fauna discovery. The council offices had a little display on the mega fauna discovery - some diprotodon fossils ...
Lamington National Park
Heute waren wir im ältesten Regenwald von Australien. Ist schon gewaltig wie dicht ein Wald sein kann. Wie es sich für einen Regenwald gehört war es ziemlich feucht und heiss. Unsere Schuhe und Beine waren voller Blätter und Erde ;-). ...
Copper Mining Town
A big history in Copper Mining in this cute little town. It relies on tourism now - all the copper has been taken out. A lot of Cornish men came out here in 1800's to make their fortune in mining the copper. Now it is the best place to buy a ...
Floots and flats.
Here they have plenty of water from the Murray river so they can take the water for rinse the grapes. In a toys store I get a wire for the gear change. So many graps need so match place to store. In this big tanks they have enough of them. ...
Oh dear!!
... whales tho. Here they are tonight with their hatches battened down, due to an impending storm, in the quaint little hamlet of Burra, the home of the tattooed lady (found in the Commercial Hotel) who thinks she is 1/2 Scottish and 1/2 Borneonian but ...
Should have stayed here
... stone cottages built by the Cornish migrants, who came to the town to work at the Copper mine. Anyway after reaching Clare we found out that Burra was the more interesting town, so we stayed at Clare but spent the next day back in Burra to look ...
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