Waterways in the outback are both beautiful and terrifying.
Series Notes: Barcaldine lies at the crossroads of major transport routes north-south and east-west; on the major transport routes from Townsville to Adelaide and Rockhampton to Darwin. Road Trains, some of considerable length, travel these roads 24/7. Caravans galore mostly during daytime hours, highlight the significance of
Along each of these routes is a series of caches highlighting the centrality of Barcaldine as an access hub in Central Western Queensland.
The Southern Series of twelve caches commences some 12 or so klm from Barcaldine on the road from Roma, Charleville and Blackall. It ends at a rest stop on the outskirts of the town. All caches of this series, except one, are on the left (western) side of the highway, so there is no need to cross the highway in search of a cache. Roadside parking is available at all caches, even for caravans.
If you are travelling out of Barcaldine, please reverse the direction of some aspects in these descriptions. Not all points will be visible when travelling south, as they will be on the opposite side of the road facing away from the direction of travel.
Cache Notes: Did you know? The movie of the cache title was a hugely successful cash cow when it appeared in cinemas in 1969. One of the cast decided to gamble her $750,000 salary on a percentage of the gross, earning $5 million over the course of three years. There were however, different rewards for the first Europeans here. In 1846, Thomas Mitchell became the first European here, and Mitchell's name was adopted for the pastoral district and for its grass, Mitchell grass. In October 1863, Donald Cameron, his son John, together with James and William Crombie walked sheep from the New England district of New South Wales and grazed them along a 40 mile frontage of the Alice River. They named their property Barcaldine after a family farm in Scotland.