CHANNEL COUNTRY CRUISING

With a few weeks to spare, we decided to do the ‘family thing’ and head to Queensland to catch up with the folks. It was but a pleasant coincidence, of course, that this placed us in such good stead for a trip heading west through Queensland’s Channel Country. Its wide open country and big blue skies had been beckoning us for a while now.

The so named ‘Channel Country’ is made up of a complex spider web of waterways that eventually drain into Lake Eyre in South Australia. The beautiful Barcoo River, written about by famous Australian Poets including Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson, was to be our focal point for this trip.

The so named ‘Channel Country’ is made up of a complex spider web of waterways that eventually drain into Lake Eyre in South