CLONCURRY TO WINTON

Mine Cart Rally was a fun event. Music was fabulous with Creedence Clearwater Collective, just like it was Creedence and the singer sounded like John Fogarty, we just loved it and then later in the evening were the Wet Whistles…. could not believe the fabulous music we had til 11pm at night all for $15 but you know mining is big around here too and they 

 CLONCURRY RACE CLUB

 Enjoying our Western Queensland Spirit Cocktailssponsor a lot of the country town events. Saturday was race day, another fabulous day with a a bus provided to take people to the racecourse, all for a gold coin donation to RFDS, seeing that Cloncurry was the birthplace of the RFDS. Sunday local markets and Monday to relax and visit the Chinamans Dam on the outskirts of town… what a beautiful lake and picnic area with super facilities for BBQs and kids playground.

We also managed to fit in the two museums in town which were also very well done, a lot about Mary Kathleen and lots of memorabilia from there with quite a few of the houses from Mary Kathleen relocated to Cloncurry and the other museum was a gallery/RFDS museum.

The lady at the tourist info centre was just lovely where we bought our tickets for museums and was born and bred in town, we congratulated her on their lovely town, green lawns on the roundabouts, clean and tidy and they didn’t seem to have an aboriginal problem here, she said thank you and we hope we never do as we have always had good relations with the aboriginal people in town and most of them 

 CLONCURRY RACE CLUB

 Nice little list of yummy cocktailsrespect the town……. it was like a breath of fresh air! That is until Monday we went down to the BWS to get some beer to find glaziers there and it was not serving but the main man there told us there had been three ram raids in town Sunday night… the boys from Mt Isa decided to come into town and try and help