Plaza Hotel Rockhampton
161-167 George Street Rockhampton, Queensland, 4700, Australia
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Rockhampton - Rodeo and new friends
... In the mid time we had contacted our friends, Shaley and Stan who we met in Bungle Bungles. It had already passed six months since we met them in Cathedral Gorge and we did not know if they still remember us. It happened they did and they were waiting for us to get in touch. We were invited to their house for lunch and honestly we could not get better hospitality. We had scones, muffins with the morning tea and later a proper barbeque lunch. We were ...
Thunder Eggs and Peacocks
My bucket list has (Find a thunder egg in Qld), and...I did, actually we found quite a few :-)
We stayed at the fossicking area campgrounds at only $40 for three nights (Powered site), pay for two get the third free... As it was off peak we had the camp to ourselves for the whole time, Shower and toilets right next to us...like our very own en-site.
We searched for thunder eggs for a few hours each day at our leisure and found a few too. I found ...
Yeeeehaaaaaa
... which was sooooo difficult!
After dinner - which was a hearty meal of BEEF...the owner 'big Al' told us about the history of the cattle station - it's interesting that they have had to resort to using helicopters to muster the cattle to save money, as labour is expensive in the region as there are lots of mines here which pay between 100,000 and 180,000 dollars!!! Also I learnt some random info - like the ...
Rockhampton: Beef Capital of Australia
... a steak at the Great Western Hotel. As it is the beef capital of Australia it had to be done, set me back $22 but was a very good steak indeed. The Great Western Hotel is where they hold rodeos so it was cool to go there and definitely got us in the spirit of outback life before heading to the cattle station in Kroombit the next ...
Croc's away!
... November 1981. It was the first commercial crocodile farm in Queensland. There was no stock available to start the farm so John & Lillian Lever captured crocodiles from the wild that were proving to be a danger to people. One of the stories told was about a lake in between a school and mill and was used by several people even though they had been told crocodiles are there... one guy would put up posters every ...



