TALAROO TALES

ONCE A WORKING CATTLE STATION, THESE DAYS TALAROO IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN SOAK UP THE INDIGENOUS HISTORY AND CULTURE, AND SOAK IN THE HOT SPRING WATER THAT BEGAN ITS JOURNEY TO THE SURFACE SOME 20,000 YEARS AGO

WORDS AND PHOTOS DICK EUSSEN

I HEADED from my home town of Mareeba to Karumba in June to pay my last respects to old mate, Wally Brummell. Long drives on sealed roads are boring for dirt-road junkies like me, but there are always side tracks that terminate on natural attractions and the Savannah Way has many – the Mount Surprise Lava Tubes of the Undara Volcanic NP, Cobbold Gorge, Cumberland Mine, Leichhardt Lagoon, and mining ruins about Forsyth, Georgetown and Croydon. These were once roaring boomtowns during the gold rushes in the late 1880s. They have period restored buildings, museums and historic sites. The historical precinct of Georgetown is amazing and well worth a walk about it. There are others with the highway well signposted to point the way. Several years have passed since I last took…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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