Rather that experince the metropolitan highlights of Cloncurry and Mt Isa, my postiebike mates and me will be pointing our Honda's skinny front tyres in a north west direction towards Gregory Downs passing through Taldora and Four Ways (where we cross the Burke Development Road).
Gregory Downs is an extremely small community, however, a townsite has been surveyed for the future. It is at the intersection of all roads leading to the Lawn Hill National Park, 95 kilometres to the west and services most of the surrounding grazing community. The Gregory Downs Hotel is an original coachhouse from the last century and holds court as the centre of town society.
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| Gregory Downs Hotel |
At one time it was a Mounted Police post. In World War II, officers at this station won fame when they searched with Doomadgee Aboriginal trackers for the crew of the ditched plane Little Eva. The crew flew out of Iron Range Airport for a bombing run to then - New Guinea and they became disoriented in a tropical storm.
Click on Archive (previous posts) to see reports from the previous days.
More to come soon.
T.
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