Barkley

Hello. This travelogue is for a trip in June, 2007, with my family and our friends the Bouchers to Lake Barkley, KY, aka The Land Between the Lakes. We are staying in a nice townhouse at Turtle Bay for the weekend, then taking the Houseboat out for a ...

Wednesday, 17th October, 2007 (Written by Stephen)   Mt Isa, across the border to N.T.   We packed up and said goodbye to Chris, Ann and kids and we headed into town to explore the Riversleigh Fossil Centre. We watched a 15 minute film and ...

... strikes. Weird weather in the Northern Territory. Turning east at Threeways towards Qld we were hoping to cross the border but the Barkley Highway had fires also. All we could do was keep traveling and hope for the best. We could see lots of smoke ...

Ah the wonderful Barkley Tablelands Roadhouse, has so much to offer and makes for a great holiday destination for those wanting to get away from it all, or for those that just adore the nothingness of a dustball. We were making really good time at this ...

... even earlier! The good news is that the car has successful not leaked oil for 24 hours! I think it’s cured! We stopped at Barkley Roadhouse to put a little bit of fuel in but after the $1.95/L price tag we opted on using our jerry cans and trying ...

... 4 days ahead of us so the more we did early the better for us later!  We pulled into a rest Stop between Threeways and Barkley Homestead, 130kms East of Threeways.  Sadly the weather had turned very windy and quite chilly !!! Oh No!  Yep no ...

... about what they were bottle feeding all there lambs, we set off for a long day of riding. We made our way up to Barkley, were we bumped into a farmer on his BMW 1100 bike while filling with petrol. Then we headed off towards Rhodes, where we decided ...

... , graves of the characters from Elsey Station in "We of the Never-Never" Dumarrah Elliot Churchill's Head Three Ways Barkley Tableland - camped in middle of nowhere! Beautiful sunset. Ground too hard to put up tents so just slept under ...

Head South & turn left! Yep that simple long boring stretch of road we know because it's the same road we traveled up just over a week ago. We stop to re-fuel at 3 ways & stop for the night at Barkly Homestead. Non event day really just an open ...

... go fast (legally). The sting is that the price of petrol has risen over 50 cents per litre (we paid $1.80 at the Barkley Homestead). Despite traveling over 660 kms today, we arrived at the Bluestone Motel in Tennant Creek at a reasonable time. In the ...

... a long, hard hike with a voyage up Barkley Sound to Port Alberni in the relative comfort of the Lady Rose or Francis Barkley surrounded by other hikers reveling in the stories of their just completed adventures. (www.ladyrosemarine.com) In 1996, on my ...

... in the cockpit under the full moon relishing wine and cheese. The afternoon of November 2nd we left our anchorage on Lake Barkley and crossed over to Kentucky Lake via the 1.5 mile Barkley Canal. We anchored a few miles further along the lake (which ...