The Walkabout Creek Hotel and beers with Mick Dundee
On the drive from Winton to
Cloncurry we stopped at the Blue Heeler pub in Kynuna, along the Matilda Way.
A fabulous pub with a big blue heeler
dog on the roof, blue paw prints painted on the picnic tables and 1000’s of signatures
from passers-by literally covering all the walls and the ceiling. Jen tells me
her signature is there somewhere and that she actually visited the pub with
Bear, her much loved blue heeler dog from days gone by. We were also lucky to
have another pair of Brolga’s greet us out the front of the pub as we pulled up
(I actually thought they were statues until they started calling out and
walking).
We then drove on to McKinlay, the home of The Walkabout Creek Hotel, famous in the iconic Australian movie, Crocodile Dundee. We had a beer with Mick Dundee and purchased Sippy a Walkabout Creek Stockman’s shirt. After lunch and a chat all things caravans with New South Welsh men from Mudgee and Nyngan (both of them desiring a BT), we headed on to the Mary Kathleen abandoned town site, 50km out of Mt Isa, for our first free camp of the trip.
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